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Message-ID: <20130820135033.GA2315@swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:50:33 +0300
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH next] netlink: prevent deadlock in ctrl_dumpfamily()

Commmit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>

    genetlink: fix family dump race

added genl_lock() call to ctrl_dumpfamily(), which potentially
can deadlock. Suppose the following case:

genl_rcv_msg(): !family->parallel_ops -> genl_lock()
	genl_family_rcv_msg()
		netlink_dump_start()
			netlink_dump()
				ctrl_dumpfamily() --> genl_lock()

Take in account possibility of genl_lock() in genl_rcv_msg() and do
not acquire genl_mutex in ctrl_dumpfamily() for a family that supports
parallel_ops.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

---

 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index f85f8a2..fca3659 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -791,6 +791,12 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
 	bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
 
+	if (need_locking) {
+		/* genl_mutex could be already locked in genl_rcv_msg() */
+		rt = genl_family_find_byid(cb->nlh->nlmsg_type);
+		need_locking = need_locking && rt->parallel_ops;
+	}
+
 	if (need_locking)
 		genl_lock();
 

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