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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-10-09 05:44:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-10-09 08:39:17 +0200 |
| commit | 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 (patch) | |
| tree | c6919d9ff42dd0b87c7db90cacfb7631507f50be /drivers/net/ppp | |
| parent | ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk (diff) | |
| download | linux-24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6.tar.xz linux-24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6.zip | |
fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
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.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ppp')
| -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 fa0d71727894..90c639b0f18d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ 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 |