Re: [PATCH] wireless: Add missing locking to cfg80211_dev_rename

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 18:14:51 EST


Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
>
> device_rename only performs useful and race free validity
> checking at the optional sysfs level so depending on it
> for all of the validity checking in cfg80211_dev_rename
> is racy.
>
> Instead implement all of the needed validity checking
> and locking in cfg80211_dev_rename.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm about as far as you can get from either a sysfs/kobject or network
expert, but both of these patches as well as your general concept that
renames should be handled at sysfs seem to me to make perfect sense.

thanks,
-serge

> ---
> net/wireless/core.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> index 80afacd..f1da0b9 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> @@ -143,8 +143,11 @@ void cfg80211_put_dev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv)
> int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
> char *newname)
> {
> + struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv;
> int idx, taken = -1, result, digits;
>
> + mutex_lock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
> +
> /* prohibit calling the thing phy%d when %d is not its number */
> sscanf(newname, PHY_NAME "%d%n", &idx, &taken);
> if (taken == strlen(newname) && idx != rdev->idx) {
> @@ -156,14 +159,30 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
> * deny the name if it is phy<idx> where <idx> is printed
> * without leading zeroes. taken == strlen(newname) here
> */
> + result = -EINVAL;
> if (taken == strlen(PHY_NAME) + digits)
> - return -EINVAL;
> + goto out_unlock;
> + }
> +
> +
> + /* Ignore nop renames */
> + result = 0;
> + if (strcmp(newname, dev_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev)) == 0)
> + goto out_unlock;
> +
> + /* Ensure another device does not already have this name. */
> + list_for_each_entry(drv, &cfg80211_drv_list, list) {
> + result = -EINVAL;
> + if (strcmp(newname, dev_name(&drv->wiphy.dev)) == 0)
> + goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> - /* this will check for collisions */
> + /* this will only check for collisions in sysfs
> + * which is not even always compiled in.
> + */
> result = device_rename(&rdev->wiphy.dev, newname);
> if (result)
> - return result;
> + goto out_unlock;
>
> if (!debugfs_rename(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent,
> rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir,
> @@ -172,9 +191,13 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
> printk(KERN_ERR "cfg80211: failed to rename debugfs dir to %s!\n",
> newname);
>
> - nl80211_notify_dev_rename(rdev);
> + result = 0;
> +out_unlock:
> + mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
> + if (result == 0)
> + nl80211_notify_dev_rename(rdev);
>
> - return 0;
> + return result;
> }
>
> /* exported functions */
> --
> 1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
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