linux/net/netlink
Johannes Berg 58ad436fcf genetlink: fix family dump race
When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call
is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families,
and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking,
racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash.
Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first
time around it's already locked.

A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but
the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible,
on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking
at the current code I found the race described above, which had
also existed on the old kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-13 00:57:06 -07:00
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Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) 2013-03-21 12:38:03 -04:00
af_netlink.c netlink: fix splat in skb_clone with large messages 2013-06-27 22:44:16 -07:00
af_netlink.h netlink: Add compare function for netlink_table 2013-06-11 02:39:42 -07:00
diag.c netlink: Fix build with mmap disabled. 2013-04-23 15:39:03 -04:00
genetlink.c genetlink: fix family dump race 2013-08-13 00:57:06 -07:00