genetlink: fix family dump race
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:04:05 +0000 (09:04 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:43:03 +0000 (08:43 -0700)
commitaab4f8d490ef8c184d854d5f630438c10406765c
treedd06cadc3e41a9744a61d0e94031f3554374744e
parentd00ff4f2e5340b4a1fae711c46d804500e4ad7f9
genetlink: fix family dump race

commit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db upstream.

When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call
is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families,
and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking,
racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash.
Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first
time around it's already locked.

A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but
the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible,
on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking
at the current code I found the race described above, which had
also existed on the old kernel.

Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
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>
net/netlink/genetlink.c