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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-03-18 21:16:45 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-03-18 21:16:45 -0700
commit0641e4fbf2f824faee00ea74c459a088d94905fd (patch)
tree54fdd8bc2e3a928ff0f7621c06e1e604eaf0529c /net
parent54d259d474e1fee6f6bb8f0f1360d85195199ac5 (diff)
downloadlinux-0641e4fbf2f824faee00ea74c459a088d94905fd.tar.gz
net: Potential null skb->dev dereference
When doing "ifenslave -d bond0 eth0", there is chance to get NULL
dereference in netif_receive_skb(), because dev->master suddenly becomes
NULL after we tested it.

We should use ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid this (or rcu_dereference())

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/8021q/vlan_core.c4
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
index c0316e0ca6e8..c584a0af77d3 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ int __vlan_hwaccel_rx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vlan_group *grp,
 	if (netpoll_rx(skb))
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
 
-	if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb))
+	if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb, ACCESS_ONCE(skb->dev->master)))
 		goto drop;
 
 	skb->skb_iif = skb->dev->ifindex;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ vlan_gro_common(struct napi_struct *napi, struct vlan_group *grp,
 {
 	struct sk_buff *p;
 
-	if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb))
+	if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb, ACCESS_ONCE(skb->dev->master)))
 		goto drop;
 
 	skb->skb_iif = skb->dev->ifindex;
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index bcc490cc9452..59d4394d2ce8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2483,6 +2483,7 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct packet_type *ptype, *pt_prev;
 	struct net_device *orig_dev;
+	struct net_device *master;
 	struct net_device *null_or_orig;
 	struct net_device *null_or_bond;
 	int ret = NET_RX_DROP;
@@ -2503,11 +2504,12 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	null_or_orig = NULL;
 	orig_dev = skb->dev;
-	if (orig_dev->master) {
-		if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb))
+	master = ACCESS_ONCE(orig_dev->master);
+	if (master) {
+		if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb, master))
 			null_or_orig = orig_dev; /* deliver only exact match */
 		else
-			skb->dev = orig_dev->master;
+			skb->dev = master;
 	}
 
 	__get_cpu_var(netdev_rx_stat).total++;