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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-10-08 23:44:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2014-12-14 16:23:47 +0000 |
| commit | a59a6d8aad7120f8cf6b2393d2a1463de0c1ba6c (patch) | |
| tree | 96c49ab02a3a10113c8854b0fa6afb0b952b3e6c /drivers | |
| parent | 4a49ed835aad6e51d4ab3f3b42a819040768484b (diff) | |
fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
commit 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 upstream.
we used to check for "nobody else could start doing anything with
that opened file" by checking that refcount was 2 or less - one
for descriptor table and one we'd acquired in fget() on the way to
wherever we are. That was race-prone (somebody else might have
had a reference to descriptor table and do fget() just as we'd
been checking) and it had become flat-out incorrect back when
we switched to fget_light() on those codepaths - unlike fget(),
it doesn't grab an extra reference unless the descriptor table
is shared. The same change allowed a race-free check, though -
we are safe exactly when refcount is less than 2.
It was a long time ago; pre-2.6.12 for ioctl() (the codepath leading
to ppp one) and 2.6.17 for sendmsg() (netlink one). OTOH,
netlink hadn't grown that check until 3.9 and ppp used to live
in drivers/net, not drivers/net/ppp until 3.1. The bug existed
well before that, though, and the same fix used to apply in old
location of file.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop changes to netlink_mmap_sendmsg()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 3ed983ce71af..4782d79f21c0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) if (file == ppp->owner) ppp_shutdown_interface(ppp); } - if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) <= 2) { + if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) < 2) { ppp_release(NULL, file); err = 0; } else |