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authorJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>2015-06-16 22:56:39 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-10 09:49:29 -0700
commit914b0ef228c97dfea025091428f6c7809c9d38ad (patch)
tree585a5392ffdca0d1f97ab05ecb8f605cbe01d569 /net/mac80211
parent2c330edb4b31fdf18c6a6c4d1d9b482632c3925b (diff)
neigh: do not modify unlinked entries
[ Upstream commit 2c51a97f76d20ebf1f50fef908b986cb051fdff9 ] The lockless lookups can return entry that is unlinked. Sometimes they get reference before last neigh_cleanup_and_release, sometimes they do not need reference. Later, any modification attempts may result in the following problems: 1. entry is not destroyed immediately because neigh_update can start the timer for dead entry, eg. on change to NUD_REACHABLE state. As result, entry lives for some time but is invisible and out of control. 2. __neigh_event_send can run in parallel with neigh_destroy while refcnt=0 but if timer is started and expired refcnt can reach 0 for second time leading to second neigh_destroy and possible crash. Thanks to Eric Dumazet and Ying Xue for their work and analyze on the __neigh_event_send change. Fixes: 767e97e1e0db ("neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour") Fixes: a263b3093641 ("ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path.") Fixes: 6fd6ce2056de ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in ip6_finish_output2().") Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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