l2tp: fix a race in l2tp_ip_sendmsg()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:25:00 +0000 (06:25 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:30:51 +0000 (14:30 -0700)
Commit 081b1b1bb27f (l2tp: fix l2tp_ip_sendmsg() route handling) added
a race, in case IP route cache is disabled.

In this case, we should not do the dst_release(&rt->dst), since it'll
free the dst immediately, instead of waiting a RCU grace period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c

index 70614e7..61d8b75 100644 (file)
@@ -464,10 +464,12 @@ static int l2tp_ip_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
                                           sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
                if (IS_ERR(rt))
                        goto no_route;
-               if (connected)
+               if (connected) {
                        sk_setup_caps(sk, &rt->dst);
-               else
-                       dst_release(&rt->dst); /* safe since we hold rcu_read_lock */
+               } else {
+                       skb_dst_set(skb, &rt->dst);
+                       goto xmit;
+               }
        }
 
        /* We dont need to clone dst here, it is guaranteed to not disappear.
@@ -475,6 +477,7 @@ static int l2tp_ip_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
         */
        skb_dst_set_noref(skb, &rt->dst);
 
+xmit:
        /* Queue the packet to IP for output */
        rc = ip_queue_xmit(skb, &inet->cork.fl);
        rcu_read_unlock();