From b09e786bd1dd66418b69348cb110f3a64764626a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:13:36 +0000 Subject: tun: fix a crash bug and a memory leak This patch fixes a crash tun_chr_close -> netdev_run_todo -> tun_free_netdev -> sk_release_kernel -> sock_release -> iput(SOCK_INODE(sock)) introduced by commit 1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d The problem is that this socket is embedded in struct tun_struct, it has no inode, iput is called on invalid inode, which modifies invalid memory and optionally causes a crash. sock_release also decrements sockets_in_use, this causes a bug that "sockets: used" field in /proc/*/net/sockstat keeps on decreasing when creating and closing tun devices. This patch introduces a flag SOCK_EXTERNALLY_ALLOCATED that instructs sock_release to not free the inode and not decrement sockets_in_use, fixing both memory corruption and sockets_in_use underflow. It should be backported to 3.3 an 3.4 stabke. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/tun.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/tun.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 961fad1f7053..f3a454c3295a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ static void tun_free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) { struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev); + BUG_ON(!test_bit(SOCK_EXTERNALLY_ALLOCATED, &tun->socket.flags)); + sk_release_kernel(tun->socket.sk); } @@ -1115,6 +1117,7 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr) tun->flags = flags; tun->txflt.count = 0; tun->vnet_hdr_sz = sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr); + set_bit(SOCK_EXTERNALLY_ALLOCATED, &tun->socket.flags); err = -ENOMEM; sk = sk_alloc(&init_net, AF_UNSPEC, GFP_KERNEL, &tun_proto); -- cgit v1.2.3