netdev - [PATCH net] net: Fix null de-reference of device refcount

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Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:02:57 -0600
From:   Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
To:     dlezcano@...ibm.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
        Sean Tranchetti <stranche@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: Fix null de-reference of device refcount

In event of failure during register_netdevice, free_netdev is
invoked immediately. free_netdev assumes that all the netdevice
refcounts have been dropped prior to it being called and as a
result frees and clears out the refcount pointer.

However, this is not necessarily true as some of the operations
in the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier handlers queue RCU callbacks for
invocation after a grace period. The IPv4 callback in_dev_rcu_put
tries to access the refcount after free_netdev is called which
leads to a null de-reference-

44837.761523:   <6> Unable to handle kernel paging request at
                    virtual address 0000004a88287000
44837.761651:   <2> pc : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
44837.761654:   <2> lr : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x2c/0xc8
44837.762393:   <2> Call trace:
44837.762398:   <2>  in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
44837.762404:   <2>  in_dev_rcu_put+0x24/0x30
44837.762412:   <2>  rcu_nocb_kthread+0x43c/0x468
44837.762418:   <2>  kthread+0x118/0x128
44837.762424:   <2>  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c

Fix this by waiting for the completion of the call_rcu() in
case of register_netdevice errors.

Fixes: 93ee31f14f6f ("[NET]: Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.")
Cc: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 49589ed..c7463c9 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8796,6 +8796,8 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
 	if (ret) {
 		rollback_registered(dev);
+		rcu_barrier();
+
 		dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;
 	}
 	/*
-- 
1.9.1