From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48578 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752723AbeA2UGf (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:06:35 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Guillaume Nault , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.9 49/66] ppp: unlock all_ppp_mutex before registering device Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:57:13 +0100 Message-Id: <20180129123842.470749789@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180129123839.842860149@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180129123839.842860149@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guillaume Nault [ Upstream commit 0171c41835591e9aa2e384b703ef9a6ae367c610 ] ppp_dev_uninit(), which is the .ndo_uninit() handler of PPP devices, needs to lock pn->all_ppp_mutex. Therefore we mustn't call register_netdevice() with pn->all_ppp_mutex already locked, or we'd deadlock in case register_netdevice() fails and calls .ndo_uninit(). Fortunately, we can unlock pn->all_ppp_mutex before calling register_netdevice(). This lock protects pn->units_idr, which isn't used in the device registration process. However, keeping pn->all_ppp_mutex locked during device registration did ensure that no device in transient state would be published in pn->units_idr. In practice, unlocking it before calling register_netdevice() doesn't change this property: ppp_unit_register() is called with 'ppp_mutex' locked and all searches done in pn->units_idr hold this lock too. Fixes: 8cb775bc0a34 ("ppp: fix device unregistration upon netns deletion") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+367889b9c9e279219175@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -1002,17 +1002,18 @@ static int ppp_unit_register(struct ppp if (!ifname_is_set) snprintf(ppp->dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, "ppp%i", ppp->file.index); + mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); + ret = register_netdevice(ppp->dev); if (ret < 0) goto err_unit; atomic_inc(&ppp_unit_count); - mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); - return 0; err_unit: + mutex_lock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); unit_put(&pn->units_idr, ppp->file.index); err: mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);