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From: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, stephen.hemminger@vyatta•com,
	jengelh@inai•de, kuznet@ms2•inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet_diag: fix panic when unload inet_diag
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:20:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50615B30.80901@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348555011.26828.2031.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

于 2012年09月25日 14:36, Eric Dumazet 写道:
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 10:48 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
>> when inet_diag being compiled as module, inet_diag_handler_dump
>> set netlink_dump_control.dump to inet_diag_dump,so if module
>> inet_diag is unloaded,netlink will still try to call this function
>> in netlink_dump. this will cause kernel panic.
>>
>> fix this by adding a reference of inet_diag module before
>> setting netlink_callback, and release this reference in
>> netlink_callback.done.
>>
>> Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan and Eric.
> ...
> 
>>  
>> @@ -1001,8 +1025,26 @@ static int inet_diag_handler_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *h)
>>  		{
>>  			struct netlink_dump_control c = {
>>  				.dump = inet_diag_dump,
>> +				.done = inet_diag_done,
>>  			};
>> -			return netlink_dump_start(net->diag_nlsk, skb, h, &c);
>> +			int err;
>> +			/*
>> +			 * netlink_dump will call inet_diag_dump,
>> +			 * so we need a reference of THIS_MODULE.
>> +			 */
>> +			if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
>> +				return -EPROTONOSUPPORT;
>> +
>> +			err = netlink_dump_start(net->diag_nlsk, skb, h, &c);
>> +
>> +			if ((err != -EINTR) && (err != -ENOBUFS)) {
>> +				/*
>> +				 * netlink_callback set failed, release the
>> +				 * referenct of THIS_MODULE.
>> +				 */
>> +				module_put(THIS_MODULE);
>> +			}
>> +			return err;
>>  		}
>>  	}
>>  
> 
> Hmm... this seems error prone...
> 
> In the future, netlink_dump_start() could be changed to return other
> errors than EINTR or ENOBUFS that need the module_put()
> 

EINTR and ENOBUFS is returned by netlink_dump, netlink_dump is called by
netlink_dump_start after netlink_callback being set successfully.
so this checking of EINTR and ENOBUFS here is to determinate if we set
netlink_callback successfully.

I think in order to reduce error prone,we have to change netlink_dump_start
to determinate if we set netlink_callback successfully.

> I would change netlink_dump_start() to __netlink_dump_start() and add a
> module param to it, so that this module stuff is centralized in
> __netlink_dump_start()
> 
> Then, instead of calling (from inet_diag)
> 
> netlink_dump_start(net->diag_nlsk, skb, nlh, &c);
> 
> you would use :
> 
> __netlink_dump_start(net->diag_nlsk, skb, nlh, &c, THIS_MODULE);
> 
> I wonder if this fix is not needed elsewhere eventually
> (net/unix/af_unix.c for example ?)
> 

do you mean net/unix/unix_diag.c ?
I test nfnetlink module,it has the same problem.

It's need to modify netlink_dump_start not only wrap netlink_dump_start.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  2:48 [PATCH] inet_diag: fix panic when unload inet_diag Gao feng
2012-09-25  6:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-25  7:20   ` Gao feng [this message]
2012-09-25  7:27     ` Gao feng

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