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vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path

Message ID 4B02B616.3020801@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Nov. 17, 2009, 2:41 p.m. UTC 
David Miller a écrit :

> Eric, please make allocation failure cause the vlan_setup()
> to fail and propagate -EFAULT back to the caller.

Sure ! (You meant -ENOMEM probably...)

While testing my new patch in OOM situations, I found following bug
in vlan code, that gave me crashes or infinite loops.


[PATCH] vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path

In case register_netdevice() returns an error, and a new vlan_group was
allocated and inserted in vlan_group_hash[] we call vlan_group_free() without
deleting group from hash table. Future lookups can give infinite loops or crashes.

We must delete the vlan_group using RCU safe procedure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/8021q/vlan.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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David Miller Nov. 17, 2009, 2:45 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:41:26 +0100

> David Miller a écrit :
> 
>> Eric, please make allocation failure cause the vlan_setup()
>> to fail and propagate -EFAULT back to the caller.
> 
> Sure ! (You meant -ENOMEM probably...)

Indeed.

> [PATCH] vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path
> 
> In case register_netdevice() returns an error, and a new vlan_group was
> allocated and inserted in vlan_group_hash[] we call vlan_group_free() without
> deleting group from hash table. Future lookups can give infinite loops or crashes.
> 
> We must delete the vlan_group using RCU safe procedure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Good catch, applied to net-2.6 and queued up for -stable.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 8836575..a29c5ab 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -281,8 +281,11 @@  out_uninit_applicant:
 	if (ngrp)
 		vlan_gvrp_uninit_applicant(real_dev);
 out_free_group:
-	if (ngrp)
-		vlan_group_free(ngrp);
+	if (ngrp) {
+		hlist_del_rcu(&ngrp->hlist);
+		/* Free the group, after all cpu's are done. */
+		call_rcu(&ngrp->rcu, vlan_rcu_free);
+	}
 	return err;
 }