From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDB1C3A59D for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD4E2339F for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730370AbfHVGIA (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:08:00 -0400 Received: from szxga04-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.190]:5187 "EHLO huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728042AbfHVGH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:07:59 -0400 Received: from DGGEMS405-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.59]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id 55DA15865E21719BE4BE; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:07:55 +0800 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.133.205.80) by DGGEMS405-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.205) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.439.0; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:07:47 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tun: fix use-after-free when register netdev failed To: Jason Wang , David Miller References: <1566221479-16094-1-git-send-email-yangyingliang@huawei.com> <20190819.182522.414877916903078544.davem@davemloft.net> CC: , , , From: Yang Yingliang Message-ID: <5D5E3133.2070108@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:07:47 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.133.205.80] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 2019/8/22 10:13, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2019/8/20 上午10:28, Jason Wang wrote: >> >> On 2019/8/20 上午9:25, David Miller wrote: >>> From: Yang Yingliang >>> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:31:19 +0800 >>> >>>> Call tun_attach() after register_netdevice() to make sure tfile->tun >>>> is not published until the netdevice is registered. So the read/write >>>> thread can not use the tun pointer that may freed by free_netdev(). >>>> (The tun and dev pointer are allocated by alloc_netdev_mqs(), they can >>>> be freed by netdev_freemem().) >>> register_netdevice() must always be the last operation in the order of >>> network device setup. >>> >>> At the point register_netdevice() is called, the device is visible >>> globally >>> and therefore all of it's software state must be fully initialized and >>> ready for us. >>> >>> You're going to have to find another solution to these problems. >> >> >> The device is loosely coupled with sockets/queues. Each side is >> allowed to be go away without caring the other side. So in this case, >> there's a small window that network stack think the device has one >> queue but actually not, the code can then safely drop them. Maybe >> it's ok here with some comments? >> >> Or if not, we can try to hold the device before tun_attach and drop >> it after register_netdevice(). > > > Hi Yang: > > I think maybe we can try to hold refcnt instead of playing real num > queues here. Do you want to post a V4? I think the refcnt can prevent freeing the memory in this case. When register_netdevice() failed, free_netdev() will be called directly, dev->pcpu_refcnt and dev are freed without checking refcnt of dev. > > Thanks > > >> >> Thanks >> > > . >