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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-07-26 13:09:16 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-26 13:09:16 -0700
commit1235f504aaba2ebeabc863fdb3ceac764a317d47 (patch)
tree58969a45226b9d35bbfc7ecc3dab2823c117db39 /net/netlink
parent7b5e078cf04ea5b8b7ccffaf9a3607097f5c2359 (diff)
netlink: netlink_recvmsg() fix
commit 1dacc76d0014 (net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks) introduced a race condition on netlink, in case MSG_PEEK is used. An skb given by skb_recv_datagram() might be shared, we must copy it before any modification, or risk fatal corruption. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 8648a9922aa..2cbf380377d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
int noblock = flags&MSG_DONTWAIT;
size_t copied;
- struct sk_buff *skb, *frag __maybe_unused = NULL;
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
int err;
if (flags&MSG_OOB)
@@ -1441,7 +1441,21 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
kfree_skb(skb);
skb = compskb;
} else {
- frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
+ /*
+ * Before setting frag_list to NULL, we must get a
+ * private copy of skb if shared (because of MSG_PEEK)
+ */
+ if (skb_shared(skb)) {
+ struct sk_buff *nskb;
+
+ nskb = pskb_copy(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ skb = nskb;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ if (!skb)
+ goto out;
+ }
+ kfree_skb(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list);
skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
}
}
@@ -1478,10 +1492,6 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
copied = skb->len;
-#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
- skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = frag;
-#endif
-
skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);
if (nlk->cb && atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf / 2)