This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held
to the 4.14-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:
netlink-don-t-call-netlink_bind-with-table-lock-held.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From stable+bounces-5309-greg=kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Dec 11 13:43:47 2023
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:42:58 +0200
Subject: netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held
To: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>, <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>, <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>, <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <yotam.gi@xxxxxxxxx>, <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>, <fw@xxxxxxxxx>, <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>, <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20231211124301.822961-2-idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f2764bd4f6a8dffaec3e220728385d9756b3c2cb upstream.
When I added support to allow generic netlink multicast groups to be
restricted to subscribers with CAP_NET_ADMIN I was unaware that a
genl_bind implementation already existed in the past.
It was reverted due to ABBA deadlock:
1. ->netlink_bind gets called with the table lock held.
2. genetlink bind callback is invoked, it grabs the genl lock.
But when a new genl subsystem is (un)registered, these two locks are
taken in reverse order.
One solution would be to revert again and add a comment in genl
referring 1e82a62fec613, "genetlink: remove genl_bind").
This would need a second change in mptcp to not expose the raw token
value anymore, e.g. by hashing the token with a secret key so userspace
can still associate subflow events with the correct mptcp connection.
However, Paolo Abeni reminded me to double-check why the netlink table is
locked in the first place.
I can't find one. netlink_bind() is already called without this lock
when userspace joins a group via NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt.
Same holds for the netlink_unbind operation.
Digging through the history, commit f773608026ee1
("netlink: access nlk groups safely in netlink bind and getname")
expanded the lock scope.
commit 3a20773beeeeade ("net: netlink: cap max groups which will be considered in netlink_bind()")
.. removed the nlk->ngroups access that the lock scope
extension was all about.
Reduce the lock scope again and always call ->netlink_bind without
the table lock.
The Fixes tag should be vs. the patch mentioned in the link below,
but that one got squash-merged into the patch that came earlier in the
series.
Fixes: 4d54cc32112d8d ("mptcp: avoid lock_fast usage in accept path")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/mptcp/20210213000001.379332-8-mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1001,7 +1001,6 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *s
return -EINVAL;
}
- netlink_lock_table();
if (nlk->netlink_bind && groups) {
int group;
@@ -1013,13 +1012,14 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *s
if (!err)
continue;
netlink_undo_bind(group, groups, sk);
- goto unlock;
+ return err;
}
}
/* No need for barriers here as we return to user-space without
* using any of the bound attributes.
*/
+ netlink_lock_table();
if (!bound) {
err = nladdr->nl_pid ?
netlink_insert(sk, nladdr->nl_pid) :
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/psample-require-cap_net_admin-when-joining-packets-group.patch
queue-4.14/drop_monitor-require-cap_sys_admin-when-joining-events-group.patch
queue-4.14/netlink-don-t-call-netlink_bind-with-table-lock-held.patch
queue-4.14/genetlink-add-cap_net_admin-test-for-multicast-bind.patch
