linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-3.10.y] ip6tnl: fix use after free of fb_tnl

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Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:54:53 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, williams@...hat.com,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, lclaudio@...g.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-3.10.y] ip6tnl: fix use after free of fb_tnl_dev

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 02:40:02PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:06:35 +0100
> 
> > The upstream commit bb8140947a24 ("ip6tnl: allow to use rtnl ops on fb tunnel")
> > (backported into linux-3.10.y) left a bug which was fixed upstream by commit
> > 1e9f3d6f1c40 ("ip6tnl: fix use after free of fb_tnl_dev").
> > 
> > The problem is a bit different in linux-3.10.y, because there is no x-netns
> > support (upstream commit 0bd8762824e7 ("ip6tnl: add x-netns support")).
> > When ip6_tunnel.ko is unloaded, FB device is deleted by rtnl_link_unregister()
> > and then we try to delete it again in ip6_tnl_destroy_tunnels().
> > 
> > This patch removes the second deletion.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> 
> Greg please queue this up for 3.10 -stable if you haven't already.

Thanks, will do.

greg k-h
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