Subject: [INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv_skb

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:50:57 +0200

Fix the oidentd oops reported by Athanasius <[email-masked]> in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8961

The oops is a 2.6.22 regression and triggerable by normal users.
The patch applies cleanly to current -git and stable-2.6.22.

[INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv_skb

netlink_run_queue() doesn't handle multiple processes processing the
queue concurrently. Serialize queue processing in inet_diag to fix
a oops in netlink_rcv_skb caused by netlink_run_queue passing a
NULL for the skb.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000054
[349587.500454]  printing eip:
[349587.500457] c03318ae
[349587.500459] *pde = 00000000
[349587.500464] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[349587.500466] PREEMPT SMP
[349587.500474] Modules linked in: w83627hf hwmon_vid i2c_isa
[349587.500483] CPU:    0
[349587.500485] EIP:    0060:[<c03318ae>]    Not tainted VLI
[349587.500487] EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.22.3 #1)
[349587.500499] EIP is at netlink_rcv_skb+0xa/0x7e
[349587.500506] eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: c148d2a0   edx: c0398819
[349587.500510] esi: 00000000   edi: c0398819   ebp: c7a21c8c   esp: c7a21c80
[349587.500517] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
[349587.500521] Process oidentd (pid: 17943, ti=c7a20000 task=cee231c0 task.ti=c7a20000)
[349587.500527] Stack: 00000000 c7a21cac f7c8ba78 c7a21ca4 c0331962 c0398819 f7c8ba00 0000004c
[349587.500542]        f736f000 c7a21cb4 c03988e3 00000001 f7c8ba00 c7a21cc4 c03312a5 0000004c
[349587.500558]        f7c8ba00 c7a21cd4 c0330681 f7c8ba00 e4695280 c7a21d00 c03307c6 7fffffff
[349587.500578] Call Trace:
[349587.500581]  [<c010361a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c/0x33
[349587.500591]  [<c01036d4>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x8d/0xaa
[349587.500595]  [<c010390e>] show_registers+0x1cb/0x321
[349587.500604]  [<c0103bff>] die+0x112/0x1e1
[349587.500607]  [<c01132d2>] do_page_fault+0x229/0x565
[349587.500618]  [<c03c8d3a>] error_code+0x72/0x78
[349587.500625]  [<c0331962>] netlink_run_queue+0x40/0x76
[349587.500632]  [<c03988e3>] inet_diag_rcv+0x1f/0x2c
[349587.500639]  [<c03312a5>] netlink_data_ready+0x57/0x59
[349587.500643]  [<c0330681>] netlink_sendskb+0x24/0x45
[349587.500651]  [<c03307c6>] netlink_unicast+0x100/0x116
[349587.500656]  [<c0330f83>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1c2/0x280
[349587.500664]  [<c02fcce9>] sock_sendmsg+0xba/0xd5
[349587.500671]  [<c02fe4d1>] sys_sendmsg+0x17b/0x1e8
[349587.500676]  [<c02fe92d>] sys_socketcall+0x230/0x24d
[349587.500684]  [<c01028d2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[349587.500691]  =======================
[349587.500693] Code: f0 ff 4e 18 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 66 ff ff ff 89 f0 e8 86 e2 fc ff e9 5a ff ff ff f0 ff 40 10 eb be 55 89 e5 57 89 d7 56 89 c6 53 <8b> 50 54 83 fa 10 72 55 8b 9e 9c 00 00 00 31 c9 8b 03 83 f8 0f

Reported by Athanasius <[email-masked]>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
index dbeacd8..def007e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
@@ -836,12 +836,16 @@ static int inet_diag_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	return inet_diag_get_exact(skb, nlh);
 }
 
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(inet_diag_mutex);
+
 static void inet_diag_rcv(struct sock *sk, int len)
 {
 	unsigned int qlen = 0;
 
 	do {
+		mutex_lock(&inet_diag_mutex);
 		netlink_run_queue(sk, &qlen, &inet_diag_rcv_msg);
+		mutex_unlock(&inet_diag_mutex);
 	} while (qlen);
 }