This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: lapbether: Prevent racing when checking whether the netif is running to the 5.10-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: net-lapbether-prevent-racing-when-checking-whether-t.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1a9c69d59313736e3e7fb9ea63d183e5f4a9e416 Author: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 10 23:23:09 2021 -0800 net: lapbether: Prevent racing when checking whether the netif is running [ Upstream commit 5acd0cfbfbb5a688da1bfb1a2152b0c855115a35 ] There are two "netif_running" checks in this driver. One is in "lapbeth_xmit" and the other is in "lapbeth_rcv". They serve to make sure that the LAPB APIs called in these functions are called before "lapb_unregister" is called by the "ndo_stop" function. However, these "netif_running" checks are unreliable, because it's possible that immediately after "netif_running" returns true, "ndo_stop" is called (which causes "lapb_unregister" to be called). This patch adds locking to make sure "lapbeth_xmit" and "lapbeth_rcv" can reliably check and ensure the netif is running while doing their work. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c index 605c01fb73f1..f6562a343cb4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ struct lapbethdev { struct list_head node; struct net_device *ethdev; /* link to ethernet device */ struct net_device *axdev; /* lapbeth device (lapb#) */ + bool up; + spinlock_t up_lock; /* Protects "up" */ }; static LIST_HEAD(lapbeth_devices); @@ -98,8 +100,9 @@ static int lapbeth_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packe rcu_read_lock(); lapbeth = lapbeth_get_x25_dev(dev); if (!lapbeth) - goto drop_unlock; - if (!netif_running(lapbeth->axdev)) + goto drop_unlock_rcu; + spin_lock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + if (!lapbeth->up) goto drop_unlock; len = skb->data[0] + skb->data[1] * 256; @@ -114,11 +117,14 @@ static int lapbeth_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packe goto drop_unlock; } out: + spin_unlock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); return 0; drop_unlock: kfree_skb(skb); goto out; +drop_unlock_rcu: + rcu_read_unlock(); drop: kfree_skb(skb); return 0; @@ -148,13 +154,11 @@ static int lapbeth_data_indication(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb) static netdev_tx_t lapbeth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { + struct lapbethdev *lapbeth = netdev_priv(dev); int err; - /* - * Just to be *really* sure not to send anything if the interface - * is down, the ethernet device may have gone. - */ - if (!netif_running(dev)) + spin_lock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + if (!lapbeth->up) goto drop; /* There should be a pseudo header of 1 byte added by upper layers. @@ -185,6 +189,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t lapbeth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, goto drop; } out: + spin_unlock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); return NETDEV_TX_OK; drop: kfree_skb(skb); @@ -276,6 +281,7 @@ static const struct lapb_register_struct lapbeth_callbacks = { */ static int lapbeth_open(struct net_device *dev) { + struct lapbethdev *lapbeth = netdev_priv(dev); int err; if ((err = lapb_register(dev, &lapbeth_callbacks)) != LAPB_OK) { @@ -283,13 +289,22 @@ static int lapbeth_open(struct net_device *dev) return -ENODEV; } + spin_lock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + lapbeth->up = true; + spin_unlock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + return 0; } static int lapbeth_close(struct net_device *dev) { + struct lapbethdev *lapbeth = netdev_priv(dev); int err; + spin_lock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + lapbeth->up = false; + spin_unlock_bh(&lapbeth->up_lock); + if ((err = lapb_unregister(dev)) != LAPB_OK) pr_err("lapb_unregister error: %d\n", err); @@ -347,6 +362,9 @@ static int lapbeth_new_device(struct net_device *dev) dev_hold(dev); lapbeth->ethdev = dev; + lapbeth->up = false; + spin_lock_init(&lapbeth->up_lock); + rc = -EIO; if (register_netdevice(ndev)) goto fail;