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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, devel@openvz.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Fix race between sk_filter reassign and sk_clone()
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:45:54 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4715D9D2.8070102@openvz.org> (raw)

The race can result in that some sock will get an sk_filter
pointer set to kfree-d memory. Look

CPU1:                            CPU2:
sk_clone():                      sk_attach_filter():
  new_sk = sk_alloc(...);
  sock_copy(new_sk, sk); 
  /* copies the filter ptr */
  ...
  filter = new_sk->sk_filter;
  if (filter)
                                     old_fp = sk->sk_filter;
                                     ...
                                     sk_filter_release(old_fp);
                                       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&old_fp->refcnt))
     atomic_inc(&filter->refcnt);
                                          /* true */
                                          call_rcu(&fp->rcu, kfree);

that's it - after a quiescent state pass the new_sk will have 
a pointer on kfree-d filter.

The same problem exists for detaching filter (SO_DETACH_FILTER).

The proposed fix consists of 3 preparation patches and the fix itself.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17  9:45 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-10-17  9:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] Introduce the sk_detach_filter() call Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-17  9:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] Move the filter releasing into a separate call Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-17  9:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] Cleanup the error path in sk_attach_filter Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-17  9:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] Fix the race between sk_filter_(de|at)tach and sk_clone() Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix race between sk_filter reassign " David Miller
2007-10-19  2:29   ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-19  4:55     ` David Miller
2007-10-19  7:37       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-19  7:52         ` David Miller

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