Commit 47191d65 authored Oct 21, 2015 by David Herrmann Committed by David S. Miller Oct 22, 2015

netlink: fix locking around NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS



Currently, NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS grabs the netlink table while copying
the membership state to user-space. However, grabing the netlink table is
effectively a write_lock_irq(), and as such we should not be triggering
page-faults in the critical section.

This can be easily reproduced by the following snippet:
    int s = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
    void *p = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
    int r = getsockopt(s, 0x10e, 9, p, (void*)((char*)p + 4092));

This should work just fine, but currently triggers EFAULT and a possible
WARN_ON below handle_mm_fault().

Fix this by reducing locking of NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS to a read-side
lock. The write-lock was overkill in the first place, and the read-lock
allows page-faults just fine.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 34e45ad9

net/netlink/af_netlink.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2371,7 +2371,7 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
		int pos, idx, shift;

		err = 0;
		netlink_table_grab();
		netlink_lock_table();
		for (pos = 0; pos * 8 < nlk->ngroups; pos += sizeof(u32)) {
		if (len - pos < sizeof(u32))
		break;
		@@ -2386,7 +2386,7 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
		}
		if (put_user(ALIGN(nlk->ngroups / 8, sizeof(u32)), optlen))
		err = -EFAULT;
		netlink_table_ungrab();
		netlink_unlock_table();
		break;
		}
		case NETLINK_CAP_ACK: