linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 49/66] ppp: unlock all_ppp

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:57:13 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 49/66] ppp: unlock all_ppp_mutex before registering device

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>

[ Upstream commit 0171c41835591e9aa2e384b703ef9a6ae367c610 ]

ppp_dev_uninit(), which is the .ndo_uninit() handler of PPP devices,
needs to lock pn->all_ppp_mutex. Therefore we mustn't call
register_netdevice() with pn->all_ppp_mutex already locked, or we'd
deadlock in case register_netdevice() fails and calls .ndo_uninit().

Fortunately, we can unlock pn->all_ppp_mutex before calling
register_netdevice(). This lock protects pn->units_idr, which isn't
used in the device registration process.

However, keeping pn->all_ppp_mutex locked during device registration
did ensure that no device in transient state would be published in
pn->units_idr. In practice, unlocking it before calling
register_netdevice() doesn't change this property: ppp_unit_register()
is called with 'ppp_mutex' locked and all searches done in
pn->units_idr hold this lock too.

Fixes: 8cb775bc0a34 ("ppp: fix device unregistration upon netns deletion")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+367889b9c9e279219175@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -1002,17 +1002,18 @@ static int ppp_unit_register(struct ppp
 	if (!ifname_is_set)
 		snprintf(ppp->dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, "ppp%i", ppp->file.index);

+	mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);
+
 	ret = register_netdevice(ppp->dev);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_unit;

 	atomic_inc(&ppp_unit_count);

-	mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);
-
 	return 0;

 err_unit:
+	mutex_lock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);
 	unit_put(&pn->units_idr, ppp->file.index);
 err:
 	mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex);