linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 141/145] net: fix socket refcounting in skb_complete_wifi

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Message-Id: <20170416080208.020134060@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:50:34 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 141/145] net: fix socket refcounting in skb_complete_wifi_ack()

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

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

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit dd4f10722aeb10f4f582948839f066bebe44e5fb upstream.

TX skbs do not necessarily hold a reference on skb->sk->sk_refcnt
By the time TX completion happens, sk_refcnt might be already 0.

sock_hold()/sock_put() would then corrupt critical state, like
sk_wmem_alloc.

Fixes: bf7fa551e0ce ("mac80211: Resolve sk_refcnt/sk_wmem_alloc issue in wifi ack path")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/core/skbuff.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3661,7 +3661,7 @@ void skb_complete_wifi_ack(struct sk_buf
 {
 	struct sock *sk = skb->sk;
 	struct sock_exterr_skb *serr;
-	int err;
+	int err = 1;

 	skb->wifi_acked_valid = 1;
 	skb->wifi_acked = acked;
@@ -3671,14 +3671,15 @@ void skb_complete_wifi_ack(struct sk_buf
 	serr->ee.ee_errno = ENOMSG;
 	serr->ee.ee_origin = SO_EE_ORIGIN_TXSTATUS;

-	/* take a reference to prevent skb_orphan() from freeing the socket */
-	sock_hold(sk);
-
-	err = sock_queue_err_skb(sk, skb);
+	/* Take a reference to prevent skb_orphan() from freeing the socket,
+	 * but only if the socket refcount is not zero.
+	 */
+	if (likely(atomic_inc_not_zero(&sk->sk_refcnt))) {
+		err = sock_queue_err_skb(sk, skb);
+		sock_put(sk);
+	}
 	if (err)
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-
-	sock_put(sk);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_complete_wifi_ack);