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netlink: fix races after skb queueing
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As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Eric Dumazet authored and davem330 committed Apr 6, 2012
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24 changes: 13 additions & 11 deletions net/netlink/af_netlink.c
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Expand Up @@ -829,12 +829,19 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
return 0;
}

int netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
static int __netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
int len = skb->len;

skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, len);
return len;
}

int netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
int len = __netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);

sock_put(sk);
return len;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -957,8 +964,7 @@ static int netlink_broadcast_deliver(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf &&
!test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) {
skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
return atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > (sk->sk_rcvbuf >> 1);
}
return -1;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1698,10 +1704,8 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)

if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
kfree_skb(skb);
else {
skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
}
else
__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);
return 0;
}

Expand All @@ -1715,10 +1719,8 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)

if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
kfree_skb(skb);
else {
skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
}
else
__netlink_sendskb(sk, skb);

if (cb->done)
cb->done(cb);
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