Patch "ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ppp-fix-race-in-ppp-device-destruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Nov 15 17:24:03 CET 2017
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 17:05:49 +0200
Subject: ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>


[ Upstream commit 6151b8b37b119e8e3a8401b080d532520c95faf4 ]

ppp_release() tries to ensure that netdevices are unregistered before
decrementing the unit refcount and running ppp_destroy_interface().

This is all fine as long as the the device is unregistered by
ppp_release(): the unregister_netdevice() call, followed by
rtnl_unlock(), guarantee that the unregistration process completes
before rtnl_unlock() returns.

However, the device may be unregistered by other means (like
ppp_nl_dellink()). If this happens right before ppp_release() calling
rtnl_lock(), then ppp_release() has to wait for the concurrent
unregistration code to release the lock.
But rtnl_unlock() releases the lock before completing the device
unregistration process. This allows ppp_release() to proceed and
eventually call ppp_destroy_interface() before the unregistration
process completes. Calling free_netdev() on this partially unregistered
device will BUG():

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:8141!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

 CPU: 1 PID: 1557 Comm: pppd Not tainted 4.14.0-rc2+ #4
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc26 04/01/2014

 Call Trace:
  ppp_destroy_interface+0xd8/0xe0 [ppp_generic]
  ppp_disconnect_channel+0xda/0x110 [ppp_generic]
  ppp_unregister_channel+0x5e/0x110 [ppp_generic]
  pppox_unbind_sock+0x23/0x30 [pppox]
  pppoe_connect+0x130/0x440 [pppoe]
  SYSC_connect+0x98/0x110
  ? do_fcntl+0x2c0/0x5d0
  SyS_connect+0xe/0x10
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5

 RIP: free_netdev+0x107/0x110 RSP: ffffc28a40573d88
 ---[ end trace ed294ff0cc40eeff ]---

We could set the ->needs_free_netdev flag on PPP devices and move the
ppp_destroy_interface() logic in the ->priv_destructor() callback. But
that'd be quite intrusive as we'd first need to unlink from the other
channels and units that depend on the device (the ones that used the
PPPIOCCONNECT and PPPIOCATTACH ioctls).

Instead, we can just let the netdevice hold a reference on its
ppp_file. This reference is dropped in ->priv_destructor(), at the very
end of the unregistration process, so that neither ppp_release() nor
ppp_disconnect_channel() can call ppp_destroy_interface() in the interim.

Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com>
Fixes: 8cb775bc0a34 ("ppp: fix device unregistration upon netns deletion")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -1338,7 +1338,17 @@ ppp_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev,
 
 static int ppp_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 {
+	struct ppp *ppp;
+
 	netdev_lockdep_set_classes(dev);
+
+	ppp = netdev_priv(dev);
+	/* Let the netdevice take a reference on the ppp file. This ensures
+	 * that ppp_destroy_interface() won't run before the device gets
+	 * unregistered.
+	 */
+	atomic_inc(&ppp->file.refcnt);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1361,6 +1371,15 @@ static void ppp_dev_uninit(struct net_de
 	wake_up_interruptible(&ppp->file.rwait);
 }
 
+static void ppp_dev_priv_destructor(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	struct ppp *ppp;
+
+	ppp = netdev_priv(dev);
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ppp->file.refcnt))
+		ppp_destroy_interface(ppp);
+}
+
 static const struct net_device_ops ppp_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_init	 = ppp_dev_init,
 	.ndo_uninit      = ppp_dev_uninit,
@@ -1386,6 +1405,7 @@ static void ppp_setup(struct net_device
 	dev->tx_queue_len = 3;
 	dev->type = ARPHRD_PPP;
 	dev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOARP | IFF_MULTICAST;
+	dev->destructor = ppp_dev_priv_destructor;
 	netif_keep_dst(dev);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from g.nault@alphalink.fr are

queue-4.9/ppp-fix-race-in-ppp-device-destruction.patch
queue-4.9/l2tp-check-ps-sock-before-running-pppol2tp_session_ioctl.patch