From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Quang Le <quanglex97@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:51:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250731175132.2592130-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
When packet_set_ring() releases po->bind_lock, another thread can
run packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event.
This race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7
("net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()").
There too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a
po->bind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And
the fix was similarly to temporarily set po->num to zero to keep
the socket unhooked until the lock is retaken.
The po->bind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the
introduction of git history.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Quang Le <quanglex97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
net/packet/af_packet.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index bc438d0d96a7..a7017d7f0927 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4573,10 +4573,10 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
was_running = packet_sock_flag(po, PACKET_SOCK_RUNNING);
num = po->num;
- if (was_running) {
- WRITE_ONCE(po->num, 0);
+ WRITE_ONCE(po->num, 0);
+ if (was_running)
__unregister_prot_hook(sk, false);
- }
+
spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
synchronize_net();
@@ -4608,10 +4608,10 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
mutex_unlock(&po->pg_vec_lock);
spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
- if (was_running) {
- WRITE_ONCE(po->num, num);
+ WRITE_ONCE(po->num, num);
+ if (was_running)
register_prot_hook(sk);
- }
+
spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
if (pg_vec && (po->tp_version > TPACKET_V2)) {
/* Because we don't support block-based V3 on tx-ring */
--
2.50.1.565.gc32cd1483b-goog
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