netdev - [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

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Date:	Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:03:26 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux1394-devel <linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:23 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> 
> > Hmm..
> > 
> > If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore
> > in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so
> > that your patch can be applied.
> > 
> > Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you
> > are going to call arp_invalidate() ?
> 
> While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a
> patch for net-2.6

Oh well, of course I must first fix the bug in net-2.6, and wait David
pull the fix in net-next-2.6 before sending this rcu conversion.

Note: this patch should be sent to stable teams (2.6.34 and up)

[PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

commit abf9d537fea225 (llc: add support for SO_BINDTODEVICE) added one
refcount imbalance in llc_ui_bind(), because dev_getbyhwaddr() doesnt
take a reference on device, while dev_get_by_index() does.

Fix this using RCU locking. And since an RCU conversion will be done for
2.6.38 for dev_getbyhwaddr(), put the rcu_read_lock/unlock exactly at
their final place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
---
 net/llc/af_llc.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/llc/af_llc.c b/net/llc/af_llc.c
index 5826129..e35dbe5 100644
--- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ static int llc_ui_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addrlen)
 		goto out;
 	rc = -ENODEV;
 	rtnl_lock();
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (sk->sk_bound_dev_if) {
-		llc->dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
+		llc->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
 		if (llc->dev) {
 			if (!addr->sllc_arphrd)
 				addr->sllc_arphrd = llc->dev->type;
@@ -329,13 +330,13 @@ static int llc_ui_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addrlen)
 			    !llc_mac_match(addr->sllc_mac,
 					   llc->dev->dev_addr)) {
 				rc = -EINVAL;
-				dev_put(llc->dev);
 				llc->dev = NULL;
 			}
 		}
 	} else
 		llc->dev = dev_getbyhwaddr(&init_net, addr->sllc_arphrd,
 					   addr->sllc_mac);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	rtnl_unlock();
 	if (!llc->dev)
 		goto out;


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