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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-08-15 21:20:44 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-08-18 23:35:58 -0700
commit68d6ac6d2740b6a55f3ae92a4e0be6d881904b32 (patch)
treeacb2b153892b6be2d39220017f30239d7d9a66b6 /net/netlink/af_netlink.c
parente243f5b6de35b6fc394bc2e1e1737afe538e7e0c (diff)
netlink: fix compat recvmsg
Since commit 1dacc76d0014a034b8aca14237c127d7c19d7726 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks we had a race condition when setting and then restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it, but the fix created even worse problems. However, the original motivation I had when I added the code that turned out to be racy is no longer clear to me, since we only copy up to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include the frag_list length. As a result, not doing any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids the race condition, while not introducing any other problems. Additionally, while preparing this patch I found that since none of the remaining netlink code is really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the original skb's information for packet information and credentials. This fixes, for example, the group information received by compat tasks. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+, for 2.6.35 revert 1235f504aa] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c46
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 8648a9922aa..980fe4ad001 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, *data_skb;
int err;
if (flags&MSG_OOB)
@@ -1418,45 +1418,35 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (skb == NULL)
goto out;
+ data_skb = skb;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)) {
- bool need_compat = !!(flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
-
/*
- * If this skb has a frag_list, then here that means that
- * we will have to use the frag_list skb for compat tasks
- * and the regular skb for non-compat tasks.
+ * If this skb has a frag_list, then here that means that we
+ * will have to use the frag_list skb's data for compat tasks
+ * and the regular skb's data for normal (non-compat) tasks.
*
- * The skb might (and likely will) be cloned, so we can't
- * just reset frag_list and go on with things -- we need to
- * keep that. For the compat case that's easy -- simply get
- * a reference to the compat skb and free the regular one
- * including the frag. For the non-compat case, we need to
- * avoid sending the frag to the user -- so assign NULL but
- * restore it below before freeing the skb.
+ * If we need to send the compat skb, assign it to the
+ * 'data_skb' variable so that it will be used below for data
+ * copying. We keep 'skb' for everything else, including
+ * freeing both later.
*/
- if (need_compat) {
- struct sk_buff *compskb = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
- skb_get(compskb);
- kfree_skb(skb);
- skb = compskb;
- } else {
- frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
- skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
- }
+ if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)
+ data_skb = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
}
#endif
msg->msg_namelen = 0;
- copied = skb->len;
+ copied = data_skb->len;
if (len < copied) {
msg->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC;
copied = len;
}
- skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
- err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, msg->msg_iov, copied);
+ skb_reset_transport_header(data_skb);
+ err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(data_skb, 0, msg->msg_iov, copied);
if (msg->msg_name) {
struct sockaddr_nl *addr = (struct sockaddr_nl *)msg->msg_name;
@@ -1476,11 +1466,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
}
siocb->scm->creds = *NETLINK_CREDS(skb);
if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
- copied = skb->len;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
- skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = frag;
-#endif
+ copied = data_skb->len;
skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);