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authorCong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com>2021-02-11 11:34:10 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-02-11 18:14:19 -0800
commit3b23a32a63219f51a5298bc55a65ecee866e79d0 (patch)
tree79f9a923b4679addfc28e39340e9834b922f7e40 /drivers/net
parent7867299cde34e9c2d2c676f2a384a9d5853b914d (diff)
downloadlinux-3b23a32a63219f51a5298bc55a65ecee866e79d0.tar.gz
net: fix dev_ifsioc_locked() race condition
dev_ifsioc_locked() is called with only RCU read lock, so when
there is a parallel writer changing the mac address, it could
get a partially updated mac address, as shown below:

Thread 1			Thread 2
// eth_commit_mac_addr_change()
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
				// dev_ifsioc_locked()
				memcpy(ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data,
					dev->dev_addr,...);

Close this race condition by guarding them with a RW semaphore,
like netdev_get_name(). We can not use seqlock here as it does not
allow blocking. The writers already take RTNL anyway, so this does
not affect the slow path. To avoid bothering existing
dev_set_mac_address() callers in drivers, introduce a new wrapper
just for user-facing callers on ioctl and rtnetlink paths.

Note, bonding also changes slave mac addresses but that requires
a separate patch due to the complexity of bonding code.

Fixes: 3710becf8a58 ("net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()")
Reported-by: "Gong, Sishuai" <sishuai@purdue.edu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tap.c7
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tun.c5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c
index ff4aa35979a1..8e3a28ba6b28 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
@@ -1090,10 +1090,9 @@ static long tap_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 			return -ENOLINK;
 		}
 		ret = 0;
-		u = tap->dev->type;
+		dev_get_mac_address(&sa, dev_net(tap->dev), tap->dev->name);
 		if (copy_to_user(&ifr->ifr_name, tap->dev->name, IFNAMSIZ) ||
-		    copy_to_user(&ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, tap->dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN) ||
-		    put_user(u, &ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_family))
+		    copy_to_user(&ifr->ifr_hwaddr, &sa, sizeof(sa)))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 		tap_put_tap_dev(tap);
 		rtnl_unlock();
@@ -1108,7 +1107,7 @@ static long tap_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 			rtnl_unlock();
 			return -ENOLINK;
 		}
-		ret = dev_set_mac_address(tap->dev, &sa, NULL);
+		ret = dev_set_mac_address_user(tap->dev, &sa, NULL);
 		tap_put_tap_dev(tap);
 		rtnl_unlock();
 		return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 62690baa19bc..fc86da7f1628 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -3107,15 +3107,14 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
 	case SIOCGIFHWADDR:
 		/* Get hw address */
-		memcpy(ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, tun->dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
-		ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family = tun->dev->type;
+		dev_get_mac_address(&ifr.ifr_hwaddr, net, tun->dev->name);
 		if (copy_to_user(argp, &ifr, ifreq_len))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 		break;
 
 	case SIOCSIFHWADDR:
 		/* Set hw address */
-		ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr, NULL);
+		ret = dev_set_mac_address_user(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr, NULL);
 		break;
 
 	case TUNGETSNDBUF: