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[NETLINK]: Fix module refcounting problems
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Use-after-free: the struct proto_ops containing the module pointer
is freed when a socket with pid=0 is released, which besides for kernel
sockets is true for all unbound sockets.

Module refcount leak: when the kernel socket is closed before all user
sockets have been closed the proto_ops struct for this family is
replaced by the generic one and the module refcount can't be dropped.

The second problem can't be solved cleanly using module refcounting in the
generic socket code, so this patch adds explicit refcounting to
netlink_create/netlink_release.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored and David S. Miller committed Aug 29, 2005
1 parent db08052 commit 77247bb
Showing 1 changed file with 35 additions and 65 deletions.
100 changes: 35 additions & 65 deletions net/netlink/af_netlink.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -73,8 +73,12 @@ struct netlink_sock {
struct netlink_callback *cb;
spinlock_t cb_lock;
void (*data_ready)(struct sock *sk, int bytes);
struct module *module;
u32 flags;
};

#define NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET 0x1

static inline struct netlink_sock *nlk_sk(struct sock *sk)
{
return (struct netlink_sock *)sk;
Expand All @@ -97,7 +101,7 @@ struct netlink_table {
struct nl_pid_hash hash;
struct hlist_head mc_list;
unsigned int nl_nonroot;
struct proto_ops *p_ops;
struct module *module;
};

static struct netlink_table *nl_table;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -338,6 +342,7 @@ static int netlink_create(struct socket *sock, int protocol)
{
struct sock *sk;
struct netlink_sock *nlk;
struct module *module;

sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;

Expand All @@ -347,30 +352,36 @@ static int netlink_create(struct socket *sock, int protocol)
if (protocol<0 || protocol >= MAX_LINKS)
return -EPROTONOSUPPORT;

netlink_table_grab();
netlink_lock_table();
if (!nl_table[protocol].hash.entries) {
#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
/* We do 'best effort'. If we find a matching module,
* it is loaded. If not, we don't return an error to
* allow pure userspace<->userspace communication. -HW
*/
netlink_table_ungrab();
netlink_unlock_table();
request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d", PF_NETLINK, protocol);
netlink_table_grab();
netlink_lock_table();
#endif
}
netlink_table_ungrab();
module = nl_table[protocol].module;
if (!try_module_get(module))
module = NULL;
netlink_unlock_table();

sock->ops = nl_table[protocol].p_ops;
sock->ops = &netlink_ops;

sk = sk_alloc(PF_NETLINK, GFP_KERNEL, &netlink_proto, 1);
if (!sk)
if (!sk) {
module_put(module);
return -ENOMEM;
}

sock_init_data(sock, sk);

nlk = nlk_sk(sk);

nlk->module = module;
spin_lock_init(&nlk->cb_lock);
init_waitqueue_head(&nlk->wait);
sk->sk_destruct = netlink_sock_destruct;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -415,22 +426,15 @@ static int netlink_release(struct socket *sock)
notifier_call_chain(&netlink_chain, NETLINK_URELEASE, &n);
}

/* When this is a kernel socket, we need to remove the owner pointer,
* since we don't know whether the module will be dying at any given
* point - HW
*/
if (!nlk->pid) {
struct proto_ops *p_tmp;
if (nlk->module)
module_put(nlk->module);

if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET) {
netlink_table_grab();
p_tmp = nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].p_ops;
if (p_tmp != &netlink_ops) {
nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].p_ops = &netlink_ops;
kfree(p_tmp);
}
nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].module = NULL;
netlink_table_ungrab();
}

sock_put(sk);
return 0;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1060,74 +1064,42 @@ static void netlink_data_ready(struct sock *sk, int len)
struct sock *
netlink_kernel_create(int unit, void (*input)(struct sock *sk, int len), struct module *module)
{
struct proto_ops *p_ops;
struct socket *sock;
struct sock *sk;
struct netlink_sock *nlk;

if (!nl_table)
return NULL;

if (unit<0 || unit>=MAX_LINKS)
return NULL;

/* Do a quick check, to make us not go down to netlink_insert()
* if protocol already has kernel socket.
*/
sk = netlink_lookup(unit, 0);
if (unlikely(sk)) {
sock_put(sk);
return NULL;
}

if (sock_create_lite(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, unit, &sock))
return NULL;

sk = NULL;
if (module) {
/* Every registering protocol implemented in a module needs
* it's own p_ops, since the socket code cannot deal with
* module refcounting otherwise. -HW
*/
p_ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*p_ops), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p_ops)
goto out_sock_release;

memcpy(p_ops, &netlink_ops, sizeof(*p_ops));
p_ops->owner = module;
} else
p_ops = &netlink_ops;

netlink_table_grab();
nl_table[unit].p_ops = p_ops;
netlink_table_ungrab();

if (netlink_create(sock, unit) < 0) {
sk = NULL;
goto out_kfree_p_ops;
}
if (netlink_create(sock, unit) < 0)
goto out_sock_release;

sk = sock->sk;
sk->sk_data_ready = netlink_data_ready;
if (input)
nlk_sk(sk)->data_ready = input;

if (netlink_insert(sk, 0)) {
sk = NULL;
goto out_kfree_p_ops;
}
if (netlink_insert(sk, 0))
goto out_sock_release;

return sk;
nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
nlk->flags |= NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET;

out_kfree_p_ops:
netlink_table_grab();
if (nl_table[unit].p_ops != &netlink_ops) {
kfree(nl_table[unit].p_ops);
nl_table[unit].p_ops = &netlink_ops;
}
nl_table[unit].module = module;
netlink_table_ungrab();

return sk;

out_sock_release:
sock_release(sock);
return sk;
return NULL;
}

void netlink_set_nonroot(int protocol, unsigned int flags)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1490,8 +1462,6 @@ static int __init netlink_proto_init(void)
for (i = 0; i < MAX_LINKS; i++) {
struct nl_pid_hash *hash = &nl_table[i].hash;

nl_table[i].p_ops = &netlink_ops;

hash->table = nl_pid_hash_alloc(1 * sizeof(*hash->table));
if (!hash->table) {
while (i-- > 0)
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