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| author | Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@oddbit.com> | 2024-05-30 00:02:43 +0300 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-06-02 01:49:26 +0300 |
| commit | 3c34fb0bd4a4237592c5ecb5b2e2531900c55774 (patch) | |
| tree | c33e28c37bb31aee935b5e1fa838b989b55f2822 /net/ax25 | |
| parent | 45c0a209dcf2c5179b54f8b7ed47b00a0a204b96 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c34fb0bd4a4237592c5ecb5b2e2531900c55774.tar.xz | |
ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections
When releasing a socket in ax25_release(), we call netdev_put() to
decrease the refcount on the associated ax.25 device. However, the
execution path for accepting an incoming connection never calls
netdev_hold(). This imbalance leads to refcount errors, and ultimately
to kernel crashes.
A typical call trace for the above situation will start with one of the
following errors:
refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
And will then have a trace like:
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs+0x64/0x70
? __warn+0x83/0x120
? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
? report_bug+0x158/0x190
? prb_read_valid+0x20/0x30
? handle_bug+0x3e/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x1c/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30
? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
ax25_release+0x2ad/0x360
__sock_release+0x35/0xa0
sock_close+0x19/0x20
[...]
On reboot (or any attempt to remove the interface), the kernel gets
stuck in an infinite loop:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for ax0 to become free. Usage count = 0
This patch corrects these issues by ensuring that we call netdev_hold()
and ax25_dev_hold() for new connections in ax25_accept(). This makes the
logic leading to ax25_accept() match the logic for ax25_bind(): in both
cases we increment the refcount, which is ultimately decremented in
ax25_release().
Fixes: 9fd75b66b8f6 ("ax25: Fix refcount leaks caused by ax25_cb_del()")
Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@oddbit.com>
Tested-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Maness <christopher.maness@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529210242.3346844-2-lars@oddbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ax25')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c index 8077cf2ee448..d6f9fae06a9d 100644 --- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c +++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c @@ -1378,8 +1378,10 @@ static int ax25_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *newsock, { struct sk_buff *skb; struct sock *newsk; + ax25_dev *ax25_dev; DEFINE_WAIT(wait); struct sock *sk; + ax25_cb *ax25; int err = 0; if (sock->state != SS_UNCONNECTED) @@ -1434,6 +1436,10 @@ static int ax25_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *newsock, kfree_skb(skb); sk_acceptq_removed(sk); newsock->state = SS_CONNECTED; + ax25 = sk_to_ax25(newsk); + ax25_dev = ax25->ax25_dev; + netdev_hold(ax25_dev->dev, &ax25->dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC); + ax25_dev_hold(ax25_dev); out: release_sock(sk); |