[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: Fix skb csum races when peeking" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 22 00:32:58 UTC 2015


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

    net: Fix skb csum races when peeking

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt27.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 79ac019c6a84a727ad2440eb925a6b778a1b0bff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:01:42 +0800
Subject: net: Fix skb csum races when peeking

[ Upstream commit 89c22d8c3b278212eef6a8cc66b570bc840a6f5a ]

When we calculate the checksum on the recv path, we store the
result in the skb as an optimisation in case we need the checksum
again down the line.

This is in fact bogus for the MSG_PEEK case as this is done without
any locking.  So multiple threads can peek and then store the result
to the same skb, potentially resulting in bogus skb states.

This patch fixes this by only storing the result if the skb is not
shared.  This preserves the optimisations for the few cases where
it can be done safely due to locking or other reasons, e.g., SIOCINQ.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
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/datagram.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/datagram.c b/net/core/datagram.c
index cd54bcc..13bc7da 100644
--- a/net/core/datagram.c
+++ b/net/core/datagram.c
@@ -778,7 +778,8 @@ __sum16 __skb_checksum_complete_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
 	if (likely(!sum)) {
 		if (unlikely(skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_COMPLETE))
 			netdev_rx_csum_fault(skb->dev);
-		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
+		if (!skb_shared(skb))
+			skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
 	}
 	return sum;
 }
--
1.9.1





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