netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ping: implement proper locking

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Date:   Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:30:29 +0100
From:   Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ping: implement proper locking

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> We got a report of yet another bug in ping
> 
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/24/6
> 
> ->disconnect() is not called with socket lock held.
> 
> Fix this by acquiring ping rwlock earlier.
> 
> Thanks to Alexander and Andrey for letting us know of this problem.
> 
> Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
> Reported-by: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

We should credit the original reporter, who most likely found this by
fuzzing.  It's danieljiang0415 on GitHub and Twitter.  Unfortunately, I
don't know their e-mail address.  I'll try asking.

Alexander