linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 37/92] net: hdlc_ppp: Fix issues when mod

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:01:41 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
        Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 37/92] net: hdlc_ppp: Fix issues when mod_timer is called while timer is running

From: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit 1fef73597fa545c35fddc953979013882fbd4e55 ]

ppp_cp_event is called directly or indirectly by ppp_rx with "ppp->lock"
held. It may call mod_timer to add a new timer. However, at the same time
ppp_timer may be already running and waiting for "ppp->lock". In this
case, there's no need for ppp_timer to continue running and it can just
exit.

If we let ppp_timer continue running, it may call add_timer. This causes
kernel panic because add_timer can't be called with a timer pending.
This patch fixes this problem.

Fixes: e022c2f07ae5 ("WAN: new synchronous PPP implementation for generic HDLC.")
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
@@ -569,6 +569,13 @@ static void ppp_timer(struct timer_list
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ppp->lock, flags);
+	/* mod_timer could be called after we entered this function but
+	 * before we got the lock.
+	 */
+	if (timer_pending(&proto->timer)) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ppp->lock, flags);
+		return;
+	}
 	switch (proto->state) {
 	case STOPPING:
 	case REQ_SENT: