[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "neigh: do not modify unlinked entries" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    neigh: do not modify unlinked entries

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Julian Anastasov <ja at ssi.bg>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:56:39 +0300
Subject: neigh: do not modify unlinked entries

[ Upstream commit 2c51a97f76d20ebf1f50fef908b986cb051fdff9 ]

The lockless lookups can return entry that is unlinked.
Sometimes they get reference before last neigh_cleanup_and_release,
sometimes they do not need reference. Later, any
modification attempts may result in the following problems:

1. entry is not destroyed immediately because neigh_update
can start the timer for dead entry, eg. on change to NUD_REACHABLE
state. As result, entry lives for some time but is invisible
and out of control.

2. __neigh_event_send can run in parallel with neigh_destroy
while refcnt=0 but if timer is started and expired refcnt can
reach 0 for second time leading to second neigh_destroy and
possible crash.

Thanks to Eric Dumazet and Ying Xue for their work and analyze
on the __neigh_event_send change.

Fixes: 767e97e1e0db ("neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour")
Fixes: a263b3093641 ("ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path.")
Fixes: 6fd6ce2056de ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in ip6_finish_output2().")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja at ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 8d614c9..0385351 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	rc = 0;
 	if (neigh->nud_state & (NUD_CONNECTED | NUD_DELAY | NUD_PROBE))
 		goto out_unlock_bh;
+	if (neigh->dead)
+		goto out_dead;

 	if (!(neigh->nud_state & (NUD_STALE | NUD_INCOMPLETE))) {
 		if (NEIGH_VAR(neigh->parms, MCAST_PROBES) +
@@ -1027,6 +1029,13 @@ out_unlock_bh:
 		write_unlock(&neigh->lock);
 	local_bh_enable();
 	return rc;
+
+out_dead:
+	if (neigh->nud_state & NUD_STALE)
+		goto out_unlock_bh;
+	write_unlock_bh(&neigh->lock);
+	kfree_skb(skb);
+	return 1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__neigh_event_send);

@@ -1090,6 +1099,8 @@ int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new,
 	if (!(flags & NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN) &&
 	    (old & (NUD_NOARP | NUD_PERMANENT)))
 		goto out;
+	if (neigh->dead)
+		goto out;

 	if (!(new & NUD_VALID)) {
 		neigh_del_timer(neigh);
@@ -1239,6 +1250,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(neigh_update);
  */
 void __neigh_set_probe_once(struct neighbour *neigh)
 {
+	if (neigh->dead)
+		return;
 	neigh->updated = jiffies;
 	if (!(neigh->nud_state & NUD_FAILED))
 		return;
--
1.9.1