Re: [held lock freed] Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Mar 21 2011 - 11:22:55 EST


On Monday 21 March 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/x25/af_x25.c b/net/x25/af_x25.c
> > index 4680b1e..b2cf1db 100644
> > --- a/net/x25/af_x25.c
> > +++ b/net/x25/af_x25.c
> > @@ -669,8 +669,8 @@ static int x25_release(struct socket *sock)
> >
> > sock_orphan(sk);
> > out:
> > - release_sock(sk);
> > sock_put(sk);
> > + release_sock(sk);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
>
> Hmm, x25_release() looks fine, I believe no fix is needed.
>

D'oh. You're right of course. My patch would introduce the bug,
not fix it. Updated patch below.

Arnd
8<-------------------------
net/appletalk: fix atalk_release use after free

The BKL removal in appletalk introduced a use-after-free problem,
where atalk_destroy_socket frees a sock, but we still release
the socket lock on it.

An easy fix is to take an extra reference on the sock and sock_put
it when returning from atalk_release.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

index 3d4f4b0..206e771 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
@@ -1051,6 +1051,7 @@ static int atalk_release(struct socket *sock)
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;

+ sock_hold(sk);
lock_sock(sk);
if (sk) {
sock_orphan(sk);
@@ -1058,6 +1059,8 @@ static int atalk_release(struct socket *sock)
atalk_destroy_socket(sk);
}
release_sock(sk);
+ sock_put(sk);
+
return 0;
}

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