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authorCong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com>2021-02-11 11:34:10 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-03-07 12:20:43 +0100
commit176188cff67ec1aa55103647b61d02315cc38e98 (patch)
tree0f4d4eb86b24fda8824d07efef85887ed059558a /Documentation
parente4fc812e3577f3673c59a8983f901761fdae6726 (diff)
net: fix dev_ifsioc_locked() race condition
commit 3b23a32a63219f51a5298bc55a65ecee866e79d0 upstream. dev_ifsioc_locked() is called with only RCU read lock, so when there is a parallel writer changing the mac address, it could get a partially updated mac address, as shown below: Thread 1 Thread 2 // eth_commit_mac_addr_change() memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); // dev_ifsioc_locked() memcpy(ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, dev->dev_addr,...); Close this race condition by guarding them with a RW semaphore, like netdev_get_name(). We can not use seqlock here as it does not allow blocking. The writers already take RTNL anyway, so this does not affect the slow path. To avoid bothering existing dev_set_mac_address() callers in drivers, introduce a new wrapper just for user-facing callers on ioctl and rtnetlink paths. Note, bonding also changes slave mac addresses but that requires a separate patch due to the complexity of bonding code. Fixes: 3710becf8a58 ("net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()") Reported-by: "Gong, Sishuai" <sishuai@purdue.edu> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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