From: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1e82a62fec613844da9e558f3493540a5b7a7b67 ]
A potential deadlock can occur during registering or unregistering a
new generic netlink family between the main nl_table_lock and the
cb_lock where each thread wants the lock held by the other, as
demonstrated below.
1) Thread 1 is performing a netlink_bind() operation on a socket. As part
of this call, it will call netlink_lock_table(), incrementing the
nl_table_users count to 1.
2) Thread 2 is registering (or unregistering) a genl_family via the
genl_(un)register_family() API. The cb_lock semaphore will be taken for
writing.
3) Thread 1 will call genl_bind() as part of the bind operation to handle
subscribing to GENL multicast groups at the request of the user. It will
attempt to take the cb_lock semaphore for reading, but it will fail and
be scheduled away, waiting for Thread 2 to finish the write.
4) Thread 2 will call netlink_table_grab() during the (un)registration
call. However, as Thread 1 has incremented nl_table_users, it will not
be able to proceed, and both threads will be stuck waiting for the
other.
genl_bind() is a noop, unless a genl_family implements the mcast_bind()
function to handle setting up family-specific multicast operations. Since
no one in-tree uses this functionality as Cong pointed out, simply removing
the genl_bind() function will remove the possibility for deadlock, as there
is no attempt by Thread 1 above to take the cb_lock semaphore.
Fixes: c380d9a7afff ("genetlink: pass multicast bind/unbind to families")
Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/genetlink.h | 8 -------
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 49 ------------------------------------------------
2 files changed, 57 deletions(-)
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -34,12 +34,6 @@ struct genl_info;
* do additional, common, filtering and return an error
* @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may
* undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
- * @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which
- * is given as the offset into the groups array)
- * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group.
- * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the
- * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open
- * sockets.
* @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes (private)
* @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family
* @n_mcgrps: number of multicast groups
@@ -62,8 +56,6 @@ struct genl_family {
void (*post_doit)(const struct genl_ops *ops,
struct sk_buff *skb,
struct genl_info *info);
- int (*mcast_bind)(struct net *net, int group);
- void (*mcast_unbind)(struct net *net, int group);
struct nlattr ** attrbuf; /* private */
const struct genl_ops * ops;
const struct genl_multicast_group *mcgrps;
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -961,60 +961,11 @@ static struct genl_family genl_ctrl __ro
.netnsok = true,
};
-static int genl_bind(struct net *net, int group)
-{
- struct genl_family *f;
- int err = -ENOENT;
- unsigned int id;
-
- down_read(&cb_lock);
-
- idr_for_each_entry(&genl_fam_idr, f, id) {
- if (group >= f->mcgrp_offset &&
- group < f->mcgrp_offset + f->n_mcgrps) {
- int fam_grp = group - f->mcgrp_offset;
-
- if (!f->netnsok && net != &init_net)
- err = -ENOENT;
- else if (f->mcast_bind)
- err = f->mcast_bind(net, fam_grp);
- else
- err = 0;
- break;
- }
- }
- up_read(&cb_lock);
-
- return err;
-}
-
-static void genl_unbind(struct net *net, int group)
-{
- struct genl_family *f;
- unsigned int id;
-
- down_read(&cb_lock);
-
- idr_for_each_entry(&genl_fam_idr, f, id) {
- if (group >= f->mcgrp_offset &&
- group < f->mcgrp_offset + f->n_mcgrps) {
- int fam_grp = group - f->mcgrp_offset;
-
- if (f->mcast_unbind)
- f->mcast_unbind(net, fam_grp);
- break;
- }
- }
- up_read(&cb_lock);
-}
-
static int __net_init genl_pernet_init(struct net *net)
{
struct netlink_kernel_cfg cfg = {
.input = genl_rcv,
.flags = NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV,
- .bind = genl_bind,
- .unbind = genl_unbind,
};
/* we'll bump the group number right afterwards */
