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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-09-24 15:44:05 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-24 15:44:05 -0700
commitb8273570f802a7658827dcb077b0b517ba75a289 (patch)
tree06fcee4433089cdb16504f40b1975ebbdf69e241 /net/netlink
parent704cc92e9ffe29458ea8831ae097c631b1160c01 (diff)
downloadlinux-b8273570f802a7658827dcb077b0b517ba75a289.tar.gz
genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
Similar to commit d136f1bd366fdb7e747ca7e0218171e7a00a98a5,
there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
    2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
     #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
     #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
    Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
     [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
     [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
     [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
     [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
     [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
     [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]

Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
before doing rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c19
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c4
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 55180b99562a..a4bafbf15097 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1609,6 +1609,16 @@ int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups)
 	return err;
 }
 
+void __netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *ksk, unsigned int group)
+{
+	struct sock *sk;
+	struct hlist_node *node;
+	struct netlink_table *tbl = &nl_table[ksk->sk_protocol];
+
+	sk_for_each_bound(sk, node, &tbl->mc_list)
+		netlink_update_socket_mc(nlk_sk(sk), group, 0);
+}
+
 /**
  * netlink_clear_multicast_users - kick off multicast listeners
  *
@@ -1619,15 +1629,8 @@ int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups)
  */
 void netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *ksk, unsigned int group)
 {
-	struct sock *sk;
-	struct hlist_node *node;
-	struct netlink_table *tbl = &nl_table[ksk->sk_protocol];
-
 	netlink_table_grab();
-
-	sk_for_each_bound(sk, node, &tbl->mc_list)
-		netlink_update_socket_mc(nlk_sk(sk), group, 0);
-
+	__netlink_clear_multicast_users(ksk, group);
 	netlink_table_ungrab();
 }
 
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 566941e03363..44ff3f3810fa 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -220,10 +220,12 @@ static void __genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family *family,
 	struct net *net;
 	BUG_ON(grp->family != family);
 
+	netlink_table_grab();
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	for_each_net_rcu(net)
-		netlink_clear_multicast_users(net->genl_sock, grp->id);
+		__netlink_clear_multicast_users(net->genl_sock, grp->id);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
+	netlink_table_ungrab();
 
 	clear_bit(grp->id, mc_groups);
 	list_del(&grp->list);