linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 048/172] l2tp: hold session while sending creation notifications

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Message-Id: <20170703133416.489751904@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  3 Jul 2017 15:33:48 +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, Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 048/172] l2tp: hold session while sending creation notifications

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

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From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>

commit 5e6a9e5a3554a5b3db09cdc22253af1849c65dff upstream.

l2tp_session_find() doesn't take any reference on the returned session.
Therefore, the session may disappear while sending the notification.

Use l2tp_session_get() instead and decrement session's refcount once
the notification is sent.

Fixes: 33f72e6f0c67 ("l2tp : multicast notification to the registered listeners")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
@@ -634,10 +634,12 @@ static int l2tp_nl_cmd_session_create(st
 			session_id, peer_session_id, &cfg);

 	if (ret >= 0) {
-		session = l2tp_session_find(net, tunnel, session_id);
-		if (session)
+		session = l2tp_session_get(net, tunnel, session_id, false);
+		if (session) {
 			ret = l2tp_session_notify(&l2tp_nl_family, info, session,
 						  L2TP_CMD_SESSION_CREATE);
+			l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session);
+		}
 	}

 out: