This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: fix locking around NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS
to the 4.2-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-fix-locking-around-netlink_list_memberships.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 14:34:38 PST 2015
From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:47:43 +0200
Subject: netlink: fix locking around NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS
From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 47191d65b647af5eb5c82ede70ed4c24b1e93ef4 ]
Currently, NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS grabs the netlink table while copying
the membership state to user-space. However, grabing the netlink table is
effectively a write_lock_irq(), and as such we should not be triggering
page-faults in the critical section.
This can be easily reproduced by the following snippet:
int s = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
void *p = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
int r = getsockopt(s, 0x10e, 9, p, (void*)((char*)p + 4092));
This should work just fine, but currently triggers EFAULT and a possible
WARN_ON below handle_mm_fault().
Fix this by reducing locking of NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS to a read-side
lock. The write-lock was overkill in the first place, and the read-lock
allows page-faults just fine.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
@@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct soc
int pos, idx, shift;
err = 0;
- netlink_table_grab();
+ netlink_lock_table();
for (pos = 0; pos * 8 < nlk->ngroups; pos += sizeof(u32)) {
if (len - pos < sizeof(u32))
break;
@@ -2361,7 +2361,7 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct soc
}
if (put_user(ALIGN(nlk->ngroups / 8, sizeof(u32)), optlen))
err = -EFAULT;
- netlink_table_ungrab();
+ netlink_unlock_table();
break;
}
default:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/netlink-fix-locking-around-netlink_list_memberships.patch
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