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authorTom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com>2013-01-22 05:13:48 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-01-29 15:43:02 -0500
commit80d84ef3ff1ddc7a829c58980a9dd566a8af5203 (patch)
tree115869b9fccce4bb2ecc7dd5a0ec2ba203802929 /net/sched
parentfc16e884a2320198b8cb7bc2fdcf6b4485e79709 (diff)
l2tp: prevent l2tp_tunnel_delete racing with userspace close
If a tunnel socket is created by userspace, l2tp hooks the socket destructor in order to clean up resources if userspace closes the socket or crashes. It also caches a pointer to the struct sock for use in the data path and in the netlink interface. While it is safe to use the cached sock pointer in the data path, where the skb references keep the socket alive, it is not safe to use it elsewhere as such access introduces a race with userspace closing the socket. In particular, l2tp_tunnel_delete is prone to oopsing if a multithreaded userspace application closes a socket at the same time as sending a netlink delete command for the tunnel. This patch fixes this oops by forcing l2tp_tunnel_delete to explicitly look up a tunnel socket held by userspace using sockfd_lookup(). Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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