From fbdd29bfd2da979b7ac6a0084af56624156c1069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:09:30 +0100 Subject: net: ipmr, ip6mr: fix vif/tunnel failure race condition Since (at least) commit b17a7c179dd3 ("[NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice."), netdev_run_todo() deals only with unregistration, so we don't need to do the rtnl_unlock/lock cycle to finish registration when failing pimreg or dvmrp device creation. In fact that opens a race condition where someone can delete the device while rtnl is unlocked because it's fully registered. The problem gets worse when netlink support is introduced as there are more points of entry that can cause it and it also makes reusing that code correctly impossible. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Reviewed-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6mr.c') diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c index 7a4a1b81dbb6..a10e77103c88 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c @@ -765,10 +765,6 @@ static struct net_device *ip6mr_reg_vif(struct net *net, struct mr6_table *mrt) return dev; failure: - /* allow the register to be completed before unregistering. */ - rtnl_unlock(); - rtnl_lock(); - unregister_netdevice(dev); return NULL; } -- cgit