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Revision e40526cb20b5ee53419452e1f03d97092f144418 authored by Daniel Borkmann on 21 November 2013, 15:50:58 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 21 November 2013, 18:09:43 UTC
Salam reported a use after free bug in PF_PACKET that occurs when we're sending out frames on a socket bound device and suddenly the net device is being unregistered. It appears that commit 827d9780 introduced a possible race condition between {t,}packet_snd() and packet_notifier(). In the case of a bound socket, packet_notifier() can drop the last reference to the net_device and {t,}packet_snd() might end up suddenly sending a packet over a freed net_device. To avoid reverting 827d9780 and thus introducing a performance regression compared to the current state of things, we decided to hold a cached RCU protected pointer to the net device and maintain it on write side via bind spin_lock protected register_prot_hook() and __unregister_prot_hook() calls. In {t,}packet_snd() path, we access this pointer under rcu_read_lock through packet_cached_dev_get() that holds reference to the device to prevent it from being freed through packet_notifier() while we're in send path. This is okay to do as dev_put()/dev_hold() are per-cpu counters, so this should not be a performance issue. Also, the code simplifies a bit as we don't need need_rls_dev anymore. Fixes: 827d978037d7 ("af-packet: Use existing netdev reference for bound sockets.") Reported-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: e40526cb20b5ee53419452e1f03d97092f144418 authored by Daniel Borkmann on 21 November 2013, 15:50:58 UTC
packet: fix use after free race in send path when dev is released
packet: fix use after free race in send path when dev is released
Tip revision: e40526c
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