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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-08-13 09:04:05 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-08-13 00:57:06 -0700 |
| commit | 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db (patch) | |
| tree | 0853904283d081562e2c07bed067c36e03936c0c /Documentation/digsig.txt | |
| parent | 771085d6bf3c52de29fc213e5bad07a82e57c23e (diff) | |
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>
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