On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:54:46AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 00:51 +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:

quoted

If you do this actually it's better to don't use patch 1/7 because
it introduces race condition that you found earlier.

Right. I've omitted that from the git tree I just pushed out.

quoted

With this patch you have still theoretical race that was fixed in patches
5 and 8 in pppoatm series, but I never seen that in practice.

And I think it's even less likely for br2684. At least with pppoatm you
might have had pppd sending frames. But for br2684 they *only* come from
its start_xmit function... which is serialised anyway.

I do get strange oopses when I try to add BQL to br2684, but that's not
something to be looking at at 1am...

I *do* need the equivalent of your patch 4, which is the module_put
race.

I think you might need also an equivalent of
"[PATCH v3 3/7] pppoatm: allow assign only on a connected socket".

I'm not sure yet. In will test if I can trigger that Oops on pppoatm
without that patch. Testing vcc flags might be sufficient - that's
what I did in the first patch, but you asked what about SOCK_CONNECTED,
and I think it was really needed.

Krzysiek
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] br2684: allow assign only on a connected socket

The br2684 does not check if used vcc is in connected state,
causing potential Oops in pppoatm_send() when vcc->send() is called
on not fully connected socket.

Now br2684 can be assigned only on connected sockets; otherwise
-EINVAL error is returned.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <redacted>
---
 net/atm/br2684.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/atm/br2684.c b/net/atm/br2684.c
index 59e8edb..e88998c 100644
--- a/net/atm/br2684.c
+++ b/net/atm/br2684.c

@@ -704,10 +704,13 @@ static int br2684_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
 			return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 		if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 			return -EPERM;
-		if (cmd == ATM_SETBACKEND)
+		if (cmd == ATM_SETBACKEND) {
+			if (sock->state != SS_CONNECTED)
+				return -EINVAL;
 			return br2684_regvcc(atmvcc, argp);
-		else
+		} else {
 			return br2684_create(argp);
+		}
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATM_BR2684_IPFILTER
 	case BR2684_SETFILT:
 		if (atmvcc->push != br2684_push)

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