net: fix potential neighbour race in dst_ifdown()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:56:14 +0000 (20:56 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:47:14 +0000 (21:47 -0700)
Followup of commit f2c31e32b378a (fix NULL dereferences in
check_peer_redir()).

We need to make sure dst neighbour doesnt change in dst_ifdown().

Fix some sparse errors.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dst.c

index 14b33ba..d5e2c4c 100644 (file)
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void *dst_alloc(struct dst_ops *ops, struct net_device *dev,
        dst_init_metrics(dst, dst_default_metrics, true);
        dst->expires = 0UL;
        dst->path = dst;
-       dst->_neighbour = NULL;
+       RCU_INIT_POINTER(dst->_neighbour, NULL);
 #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
        dst->xfrm = NULL;
 #endif
@@ -229,11 +229,11 @@ struct dst_entry *dst_destroy(struct dst_entry * dst)
        smp_rmb();
 
 again:
-       neigh = dst->_neighbour;
+       neigh = rcu_dereference_protected(dst->_neighbour, 1);
        child = dst->child;
 
        if (neigh) {
-               dst->_neighbour = NULL;
+               RCU_INIT_POINTER(dst->_neighbour, NULL);
                neigh_release(neigh);
        }
 
@@ -360,14 +360,19 @@ static void dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev,
        if (!unregister) {
                dst->input = dst->output = dst_discard;
        } else {
+               struct neighbour *neigh;
+
                dst->dev = dev_net(dst->dev)->loopback_dev;
                dev_hold(dst->dev);
                dev_put(dev);
-               if (dst->_neighbour && dst->_neighbour->dev == dev) {
-                       dst->_neighbour->dev = dst->dev;
+               rcu_read_lock();
+               neigh = dst_get_neighbour(dst);
+               if (neigh && neigh->dev == dev) {
+                       neigh->dev = dst->dev;
                        dev_hold(dst->dev);
                        dev_put(dev);
                }
+               rcu_read_unlock();
        }
 }