linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/tcp_sigpool: Use kref_get_unless

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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:08:39 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/tcp_sigpool: Use kref_get_unless_zero()

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 2:14 AM Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com> wrote:
>
> The freeing and re-allocation of algorithm are protected by cpool_mutex,
> so it doesn't fix an actual use-after-free, but avoids a deserved
> refcount_warn_saturate() warning.
>
> A trivial fix for the racy behavior.
>
> Fixes: 8c73b26315aa ("net/tcp: Prepare tcp_md5sig_pool for TCP-AO")
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>