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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 18:41:16 +0100 From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> Subject: [PATCH net] ppp: prevent unregistered channels from connecting to PPP units PPP units don't hold any reference on the channels connected to it. It is the channel's responsibility to ensure that it disconnects from its unit before being destroyed. In practice, this is ensured by ppp_unregister_channel() disconnecting the channel from the unit before dropping a reference on the channel. However, it is possible for an unregistered channel to connect to a PPP unit: register a channel with ppp_register_net_channel(), attach a /dev/ppp file to it with ioctl(PPPIOCATTCHAN), unregister the channel with ppp_unregister_channel() and finally connect the /dev/ppp file to a PPP unit with ioctl(PPPIOCCONNECT). Once in this situation, the channel is only held by the /dev/ppp file, which can be released at anytime and free the channel without letting the parent PPP unit know. Then the ppp structure ends up with dangling pointers in its ->channels list. Prevent this scenario by forbidding unregistered channels from connecting to PPP units. This maintains the code logic by keeping ppp_unregister_channel() responsible from disconnecting the channel if necessary and avoids modification on the reference counting mechanism. This issue seems to predate git history (successfully reproduced on Linux 2.6.26 and earlier PPP commits are unrelated). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr> --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 255a5def56e9..fa2a9bdd1866 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -3161,6 +3161,15 @@ ppp_connect_channel(struct channel *pch, int unit) goto outl; ppp_lock(ppp); + spin_lock_bh(&pch->downl); + if (!pch->chan) { + /* Don't connect unregistered channels */ + spin_unlock_bh(&pch->downl); + ppp_unlock(ppp); + ret = -ENOTCONN; + goto outl; + } + spin_unlock_bh(&pch->downl); if (pch->file.hdrlen > ppp->file.hdrlen) ppp->file.hdrlen = pch->file.hdrlen; hdrlen = pch->file.hdrlen + 2; /* for protocol bytes */ -- 2.16.2
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