netdev - [PATCH net 0/5] ppp: fix locking issues related to ppp

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Message-ID: <cover.1456167043.git.g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:47:11 +0100
From:	Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH net 0/5] ppp: fix locking issues related to ppp_ioctl()

This series fixes unprotected accesses to several struct ppp fields.
Only fields used in ppp_ioctl() have been considered, though.

Locking of the xstate and rstate fields remains incomplete: although a
side effect of patch #2 provides protection in ppp_ioctl(), xstate and
rstate can still be modified without appropriate locking by
ppp_ccp_peek(). Taking the missing locks in ppp_ccp_peek() isn't
possible as this would lead to lock inversion (when protecting xstate
with ppp_xmit_lock() while ppp_ccp_peek() is called in the Rx path).

Using a workqueue to run ppp_ccp_peek() might be a solution, but this
is left for another series.

Guillaume Nault (5):
  ppp: lock ppp structure before modifying mru in ppp_ioctl()
  ppp: fix unprotected accesses to ppp->flags and ppp->n_channels
  ppp: protect ppp->debug in ppp_ioctl()
  ppp: protect access to ppp->last{xmit,recv} in ppp_ioctl()
  ppp: protect ppp->npmode

 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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