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author | Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org> | 2020-06-30 20:50:17 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-07-22 10:31:58 +0300 |
commit | 0845447d9c783a502bd3e13af0f38aa4c7655a77 (patch) | |
tree | 8ffc625c888d2735debe8da059212b1e2f655969 | |
parent | cf7318b750400d8477f21bae6d9ffbb73f382045 (diff) | |
download | linux-0845447d9c783a502bd3e13af0f38aa4c7655a77.tar.xz |
genetlink: remove genl_bind
[ Upstream commit 1e82a62fec613844da9e558f3493540a5b7a7b67 ]
A potential deadlock can occur during registering or unregistering a
new generic netlink family between the main nl_table_lock and the
cb_lock where each thread wants the lock held by the other, as
demonstrated below.
1) Thread 1 is performing a netlink_bind() operation on a socket. As part
of this call, it will call netlink_lock_table(), incrementing the
nl_table_users count to 1.
2) Thread 2 is registering (or unregistering) a genl_family via the
genl_(un)register_family() API. The cb_lock semaphore will be taken for
writing.
3) Thread 1 will call genl_bind() as part of the bind operation to handle
subscribing to GENL multicast groups at the request of the user. It will
attempt to take the cb_lock semaphore for reading, but it will fail and
be scheduled away, waiting for Thread 2 to finish the write.
4) Thread 2 will call netlink_table_grab() during the (un)registration
call. However, as Thread 1 has incremented nl_table_users, it will not
be able to proceed, and both threads will be stuck waiting for the
other.
genl_bind() is a noop, unless a genl_family implements the mcast_bind()
function to handle setting up family-specific multicast operations. Since
no one in-tree uses this functionality as Cong pointed out, simply removing
the genl_bind() function will remove the possibility for deadlock, as there
is no attempt by Thread 1 above to take the cb_lock semaphore.
Fixes: c380d9a7afff ("genetlink: pass multicast bind/unbind to families")
Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 49 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 57 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index decf6012a401..3e3a1a38884a 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -34,12 +34,6 @@ struct genl_info; * do additional, common, filtering and return an error * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may * undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks - * @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which - * is given as the offset into the groups array) - * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group. - * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the - * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open - * sockets. * @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes (private) * @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family * @n_mcgrps: number of multicast groups @@ -62,8 +56,6 @@ struct genl_family { void (*post_doit)(const struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info); - int (*mcast_bind)(struct net *net, int group); - void (*mcast_unbind)(struct net *net, int group); struct nlattr ** attrbuf; /* private */ const struct genl_ops * ops; const struct genl_multicast_group *mcgrps; diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index f0ec068e1d02..ede73ecfb1f5 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -961,60 +961,11 @@ static struct genl_family genl_ctrl __ro_after_init = { .netnsok = true, }; -static int genl_bind(struct net *net, int group) -{ - struct genl_family *f; - int err = -ENOENT; - unsigned int id; - - down_read(&cb_lock); - - idr_for_each_entry(&genl_fam_idr, f, id) { - if (group >= f->mcgrp_offset && - group < f->mcgrp_offset + f->n_mcgrps) { - int fam_grp = group - f->mcgrp_offset; - - if (!f->netnsok && net != &init_net) - err = -ENOENT; - else if (f->mcast_bind) - err = f->mcast_bind(net, fam_grp); - else - err = 0; - break; - } - } - up_read(&cb_lock); - - return err; -} - -static void genl_unbind(struct net *net, int group) -{ - struct genl_family *f; - unsigned int id; - - down_read(&cb_lock); - - idr_for_each_entry(&genl_fam_idr, f, id) { - if (group >= f->mcgrp_offset && - group < f->mcgrp_offset + f->n_mcgrps) { - int fam_grp = group - f->mcgrp_offset; - - if (f->mcast_unbind) - f->mcast_unbind(net, fam_grp); - break; - } - } - up_read(&cb_lock); -} - static int __net_init genl_pernet_init(struct net *net) { struct netlink_kernel_cfg cfg = { .input = genl_rcv, .flags = NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV, - .bind = genl_bind, - .unbind = genl_unbind, }; /* we'll bump the group number right afterwards */ |