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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 /net/core/dev.c
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c42
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d90e8bd87df8..e732faade5dc 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8144,6 +8144,48 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address);
+static DECLARE_RWSEM(dev_addr_sem);
+
+int dev_set_mac_address_user(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa,
+ struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ down_write(&dev_addr_sem);
+ ret = dev_set_mac_address(dev, sa, extack);
+ up_write(&dev_addr_sem);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_mac_address_user);
+
+int dev_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name)
+{
+ size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data);
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ down_read(&dev_addr_sem);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, dev_name);
+ if (!dev) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+ if (!dev->addr_len)
+ memset(sa->sa_data, 0, size);
+ else
+ memcpy(sa->sa_data, dev->dev_addr,
+ min_t(size_t, size, dev->addr_len));
+ sa->sa_family = dev->type;
+
+unlock:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ up_read(&dev_addr_sem);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_mac_address);
+
/**
* dev_change_carrier - Change device carrier
* @dev: device