[PATCH 065/102] unix: fix a race condition in unix_release()
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 8 09:50:20 UTC 2013
3.5.7.10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
commit ded34e0fe8fe8c2d595bfa30626654e4b87621e0 upstream.
As reported by Jan, and others over the past few years, there is a
race condition caused by unix_release setting the sock->sk pointer
to NULL before properly marking the socket as dead/orphaned. This
can cause a problem with the LSM hook security_unix_may_send() if
there is another socket attempting to write to this partially
released socket in between when sock->sk is set to NULL and it is
marked as dead/orphaned. This patch fixes this by only setting
sock->sk to NULL after the socket has been marked as dead; I also
take the opportunity to make unix_release_sock() a void function
as it only ever returned 0/success.
Dave, I think this one should go on the -stable pile.
Special thanks to Jan for coming up with a reproducer for this
problem.
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jan.stancek at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/unix/af_unix.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 9aa708c..023db69 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static void unix_sock_destructor(struct sock *sk)
#endif
}
-static int unix_release_sock(struct sock *sk, int embrion)
+static void unix_release_sock(struct sock *sk, int embrion)
{
struct unix_sock *u = unix_sk(sk);
struct path path;
@@ -444,8 +444,6 @@ static int unix_release_sock(struct sock *sk, int embrion)
if (unix_tot_inflight)
unix_gc(); /* Garbage collect fds */
-
- return 0;
}
static void init_peercred(struct sock *sk)
@@ -695,9 +693,10 @@ static int unix_release(struct socket *sock)
if (!sk)
return 0;
+ unix_release_sock(sk, 0);
sock->sk = NULL;
- return unix_release_sock(sk, 0);
+ return 0;
}
static int unix_autobind(struct socket *sock)
--
1.8.1.2
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