3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9434266f2c645d4fcf62a03a8e36ad8075e37943 ] Bug: The fallback device is created in sit_init_net and assumed to be freed in sit_exit_net. First, it is dereferenced in that function, in sit_destroy_tunnels: struct net *net = dev_net(sitn->fb_tunnel_dev); Prior to this, rtnl_unlink_register has removed all devices that match rtnl_link_ops == sit_link_ops. Commit 205983c43700 added the line + sitn->fb_tunnel_dev->rtnl_link_ops = &sit_link_ops; which cases the fallback device to match here and be freed before it is last dereferenced. Fix: This commit adds an explicit .delllink callback to sit_link_ops that skips deallocation at rtnl_unlink_register for the fallback device. This mechanism is comparable to the one in ip_tunnel. It also modifies sit_destroy_tunnels and its only caller sit_exit_net to avoid the offending dereference in the first place. That double lookup is more complicated than required. Test: The bug is only triggered when CONFIG_NET_NS is enabled. It causes a GPF only when CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled. Verified that this bug exists at the mentioned commit, at davem-net HEAD and at 3.11.y HEAD. Verified that it went away after applying this patch. Fixes: 205983c43700 ("sit: allow to use rtnl ops on fb tunnel") Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/sit.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1594,6 +1594,15 @@ static const struct nla_policy ipip6_pol #endif }; +static void ipip6_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) +{ + struct net *net = dev_net(dev); + struct sit_net *sitn = net_generic(net, sit_net_id); + + if (dev != sitn->fb_tunnel_dev) + unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head); +} + static struct rtnl_link_ops sit_link_ops __read_mostly = { .kind = "sit", .maxtype = IFLA_IPTUN_MAX, @@ -1605,6 +1614,7 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops sit_link_ops .changelink = ipip6_changelink, .get_size = ipip6_get_size, .fill_info = ipip6_fill_info, + .dellink = ipip6_dellink, }; static struct xfrm_tunnel sit_handler __read_mostly = { @@ -1619,9 +1629,10 @@ static struct xfrm_tunnel ipip_handler _ .priority = 2, }; -static void __net_exit sit_destroy_tunnels(struct sit_net *sitn, struct list_head *head) +static void __net_exit sit_destroy_tunnels(struct net *net, + struct list_head *head) { - struct net *net = dev_net(sitn->fb_tunnel_dev); + struct sit_net *sitn = net_generic(net, sit_net_id); struct net_device *dev, *aux; int prio; @@ -1696,11 +1707,10 @@ err_alloc_dev: static void __net_exit sit_exit_net(struct net *net) { - struct sit_net *sitn = net_generic(net, sit_net_id); LIST_HEAD(list); rtnl_lock(); - sit_destroy_tunnels(sitn, &list); + sit_destroy_tunnels(net, &list); unregister_netdevice_many(&list); rtnl_unlock(); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html