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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-10-16 18:09:53 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-18 13:30:36 +0300
commite9c2b9fd0a1efa1f14c0f5fc6fe656029a5fa3e5 (patch)
treee008ddc13d9f60d051c89e8a442d399b7680936f
parentaa9ab97c4d79b29727344f9c77d673743bbe35cb (diff)
downloadlinux-e9c2b9fd0a1efa1f14c0f5fc6fe656029a5fa3e5.tar.xz
netlink: fix netlink_ack() extack race
[ Upstream commit 48044eb490be71c203e14dd89e8bae87209eab52 ] It seems that it's possible to toggle NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK through setsockopt() while another thread/CPU is building a message inside netlink_ack(), which could then trigger the WARN_ON()s I added since if it goes from being turned off to being turned on between allocating and filling the message, the skb could end up being too small. Avoid this whole situation by storing the value of this flag in a separate variable and using that throughout the function instead. Fixes: 2d4bc93368f5 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 56527e37ffdd..09c8dbbd2d70 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2299,6 +2299,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
size_t tlvlen = 0;
struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk);
unsigned int flags = 0;
+ bool nlk_has_extack = nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK;
/* Error messages get the original request appened, unless the user
* requests to cap the error message, and get extra error data if
@@ -2309,7 +2310,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
else
flags |= NLM_F_CAPPED;
- if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK && extack) {
+ if (nlk_has_extack && extack) {
if (extack->_msg)
tlvlen += nla_total_size(strlen(extack->_msg) + 1);
if (extack->bad_attr)
@@ -2318,8 +2319,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
} else {
flags |= NLM_F_CAPPED;
- if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK &&
- extack && extack->cookie_len)
+ if (nlk_has_extack && extack && extack->cookie_len)
tlvlen += nla_total_size(extack->cookie_len);
}
@@ -2347,7 +2347,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
errmsg->error = err;
memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
- if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK && extack) {
+ if (nlk_has_extack && extack) {
if (err) {
if (extack->_msg)
WARN_ON(nla_put_string(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,