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| author | Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org> | 2020-06-30 11:50:17 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-07-22 09:10:03 +0200 |
| commit | 2506cfc94d2e2738cfe6d3a2800f6604c4586438 (patch) | |
| tree | c5066c4b270fcda3141125aef1f8ca131451998e /include | |
| parent | 902fb3367b2304ade238fb9e25b211750fc23da8 (diff) | |
genetlink: remove genl_bind
[ Upstream commit 1e82a62fec613844da9e558f3493540a5b7a7b67 ]
A potential deadlock can occur during registering or unregistering a
new generic netlink family between the main nl_table_lock and the
cb_lock where each thread wants the lock held by the other, as
demonstrated below.
1) Thread 1 is performing a netlink_bind() operation on a socket. As part
of this call, it will call netlink_lock_table(), incrementing the
nl_table_users count to 1.
2) Thread 2 is registering (or unregistering) a genl_family via the
genl_(un)register_family() API. The cb_lock semaphore will be taken for
writing.
3) Thread 1 will call genl_bind() as part of the bind operation to handle
subscribing to GENL multicast groups at the request of the user. It will
attempt to take the cb_lock semaphore for reading, but it will fail and
be scheduled away, waiting for Thread 2 to finish the write.
4) Thread 2 will call netlink_table_grab() during the (un)registration
call. However, as Thread 1 has incremented nl_table_users, it will not
be able to proceed, and both threads will be stuck waiting for the
other.
genl_bind() is a noop, unless a genl_family implements the mcast_bind()
function to handle setting up family-specific multicast operations. Since
no one in-tree uses this functionality as Cong pointed out, simply removing
the genl_bind() function will remove the possibility for deadlock, as there
is no attempt by Thread 1 above to take the cb_lock semaphore.
Fixes: c380d9a7afff ("genetlink: pass multicast bind/unbind to families")
Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 43c0e771f417..351766331519 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ struct genl_info; * do additional, common, filtering and return an error * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may * undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks - * @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which - * is given as the offset into the groups array) - * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group. - * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the - * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open - * sockets. * @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes * @family_list: family list * @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family (private) @@ -61,8 +55,6 @@ struct genl_family { void (*post_doit)(const struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info); - int (*mcast_bind)(struct net *net, int group); - void (*mcast_unbind)(struct net *net, int group); struct nlattr ** attrbuf; /* private */ const struct genl_ops * ops; /* private */ const struct genl_multicast_group *mcgrps; /* private */ |