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Commit ac57b3a9 authored by Denis Lunev's avatar Denis Lunev Committed by David S. Miller
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[NETLINK]: Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket



There is a race between netlink_dump_start() and netlink_release()
that can lead to the situation when a netlink socket with non-zero
callback is freed.

Here it is:

CPU1:                           CPU2
netlink_release():              netlink_dump_start():

                                sk = netlink_lookup(); /* OK */

netlink_remove();

spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock);
if (nlk->cb) { /* false */
  ...
}
spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock);

                                spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock);
                                if (nlk->cb) { /* false */
                                         ...
                                }
                                nlk->cb = cb;
                                spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock);
                                ...
sock_orphan(sk);
/*
 * proceed with releasing
 * the socket
 */

The proposal it to make sock_orphan before detaching the callback
in netlink_release() and to check for the sock to be SOCK_DEAD in
netlink_dump_start() before setting a new callback.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bfb6709d
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