linux/drivers/net/ppp
Guillaume Nault 6151b8b37b ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction
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: 8cb775bc0a ("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>
2017-10-06 10:16:34 -07:00
..
bsd_comp.c
Kconfig tty/serial patches for 3.9-rc1 2013-02-21 13:41:04 -08:00
Makefile
ppp_async.c networking: make skb_push & __skb_push return void pointers 2017-06-16 11:48:40 -04:00
ppp_deflate.c ppp: deflate: never return len larger than output buffer 2015-01-29 14:50:01 -08:00
ppp_generic.c ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction 2017-10-06 10:16:34 -07:00
ppp_mppe.c ppp: mppe: Use vsnprintf extension %phN 2017-06-06 15:16:33 -04:00
ppp_mppe.h
ppp_synctty.c net: manual clean code which call skb_put_[data:zero] 2017-06-20 13:30:15 -04:00
pppoe.c networking: make skb_put & friends return void pointers 2017-06-16 11:48:39 -04:00
pppox.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
pptp.c ppp: Fix a scheduling-while-atomic bug in del_chan 2017-07-31 21:59:01 -07:00