This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
to the 3.17-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:
fix-misuses-of-f_count-in-ppp-and-netlink.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:44:00 -0400
Subject: fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 upstream.
we used to check for "nobody else could start doing anything with
that opened file" by checking that refcount was 2 or less - one
for descriptor table and one we'd acquired in fget() on the way to
wherever we are. That was race-prone (somebody else might have
had a reference to descriptor table and do fget() just as we'd
been checking) and it had become flat-out incorrect back when
we switched to fget_light() on those codepaths - unlike fget(),
it doesn't grab an extra reference unless the descriptor table
is shared. The same change allowed a race-free check, though -
we are safe exactly when refcount is less than 2.
It was a long time ago; pre-2.6.12 for ioctl() (the codepath leading
to ppp one) and 2.6.17 for sendmsg() (netlink one). OTOH,
netlink hadn't grown that check until 3.9 and ppp used to live
in drivers/net, not drivers/net/ppp until 3.1. The bug existed
well before that, though, and the same fix used to apply in old
location of file.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file,
if (file == ppp->owner)
ppp_shutdown_interface(ppp);
}
- if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) <= 2) {
+ if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) < 2) {
ppp_release(NULL, file);
err = 0;
} else
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ static int netlink_mmap_sendmsg(struct s
* after validation, the socket and the ring may only be used by a
* single process, otherwise we fall back to copying.
*/
- if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 2 ||
+ if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 1 ||
atomic_read(&nlk->mapped) > 1)
excl = false;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/missing-data-dependency-barrier-in-prepend_name.patch
queue-3.17/kill-wbuf_queued-wbuf_dwork_lock.patch
queue-3.17/fs-make-cont_expand_zero-interruptible.patch
queue-3.17/fix-misuses-of-f_count-in-ppp-and-netlink.patch
queue-3.17/fs-fix-theoretical-division-by-0-in-super_cache_scan.patch
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