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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-04-23 18:03:44 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-04-24 11:39:15 -0400
commitb357a364c57c940ddb932224542494363df37378 (patch)
tree84657c956c5c64a2ae058b8285271f778b1aea67 /net/dccp/ipv4.c
parent1d8dc3d3c8f1d8ee1da9d54c5d7c8694419ade42 (diff)
downloadlinux-b357a364c57c940ddb932224542494363df37378.tar.gz
inet: fix possible panic in reqsk_queue_unlink()
[ 3897.923145] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
 0000000000000080
[ 3897.931025] IP: [<ffffffffa9f27686>] reqsk_timer_handler+0x1a6/0x243

There is a race when reqsk_timer_handler() and tcp_check_req() call
inet_csk_reqsk_queue_unlink() on the same req at the same time.

Before commit fa76ce7328b2 ("inet: get rid of central tcp/dccp listener
timer"), listener spinlock was held and race could not happen.

To solve this bug, we change reqsk_queue_unlink() to not assume req
must be found, and we return a status, to conditionally release a
refcount on the request sock.

This also means tcp_check_req() in non fastopen case might or not
consume req refcount, so tcp_v6_hnd_req() & tcp_v4_hnd_req() have
to properly handle this.

(Same remark for dccp_check_req() and its callers)

inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop() is now too big to be inlined, as it is
called 4 times in tcp and 3 times in dccp.

Fixes: fa76ce7328b2 ("inet: get rid of central tcp/dccp listener timer")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/dccp/ipv4.c')
-rw-r--r--net/dccp/ipv4.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/dccp/ipv4.c b/net/dccp/ipv4.c
index 2b4f21d34df6..ccf4c5629b3c 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ipv4.c
+++ b/net/dccp/ipv4.c
@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@ static struct sock *dccp_v4_hnd_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 						       iph->saddr, iph->daddr);
 	if (req) {
 		nsk = dccp_check_req(sk, skb, req);
-		reqsk_put(req);
+		if (!nsk)
+			reqsk_put(req);
 		return nsk;
 	}
 	nsk = inet_lookup_established(sock_net(sk), &dccp_hashinfo,