From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 22:17:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: netlink: fix races after skb queueing
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.17~98
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6465c3d0237438855ba4adfbdee210d3220ca77;p=karo-tx-linux.git

netlink: fix races after skb queueing

[ Upstream commit 4a7e7c2ad540e54c75489a70137bf0ec15d3a127 ]

As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 1201b6d4183d..a99fb417b5b4 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -830,12 +830,19 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static int __netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	int len = skb->len;
 
 	skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
 	sk->sk_data_ready(sk, len);
+	return len;
+}
+
+int netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	int len = __netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
+
 	sock_put(sk);
 	return len;
 }
@@ -960,8 +967,7 @@ static inline int netlink_broadcast_deliver(struct sock *sk,
 	if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf &&
 	    !test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) {
 		skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
-		skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
-		sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
+		__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
 		return atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf;
 	}
 	return -1;
@@ -1684,10 +1690,8 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 
 		if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
 			kfree_skb(skb);
-		else {
-			skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
-			sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
-		}
+		else
+			__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1701,10 +1705,8 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 
 	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-	else {
-		skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
-		sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
-	}
+	else
+		__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
 
 	if (cb->done)
 		cb->done(cb);