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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-06-08 06:25:00 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-16 09:03:45 -0700
commit4ffa79bd261281152345b55d77da1709d1afdf3c (patch)
treecd93ad75f519f171b279e44b2c19d247c22d7fb5 /net
parentb133be60ddab3b700ec1e516cc6ec5aac20770e0 (diff)
l2tp: fix a race in l2tp_ip_sendmsg()
[ Upstream commit 4399a4df98a63e30fd16e9d0cecc46ea92269e8f ] Commit 081b1b1bb27f (l2tp: fix l2tp_ip_sendmsg() route handling) added a race, in case IP route cache is disabled. In this case, we should not do the dst_release(&rt->dst), since it'll free the dst immediately, instead of waiting a RCU grace period. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c
index cc8ad7bf51d8..b1d4370c8962 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c
@@ -516,10 +516,12 @@ static int l2tp_ip_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
if (IS_ERR(rt))
goto no_route;
- if (connected)
+ if (connected) {
sk_setup_caps(sk, &rt->dst);
- else
- dst_release(&rt->dst); /* safe since we hold rcu_read_lock */
+ } else {
+ skb_dst_set(skb, &rt->dst);
+ goto xmit;
+ }
}
/* We dont need to clone dst here, it is guaranteed to not disappear.
@@ -527,6 +529,7 @@ static int l2tp_ip_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
*/
skb_dst_set_noref(skb, &rt->dst);
+xmit:
/* Queue the packet to IP for output */
rc = ip_queue_xmit(skb, &inet->cork.fl);
rcu_read_unlock();