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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox•com>
Cc: jbenc@redhat•com, roid@mellanox•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net,V2] vxlan: fix use-after-free on deletion
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:31:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5930DC00.5090201@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496363048-21138-1-git-send-email-markb@mellanox.com>

On 6/1/17, 5:24 PM, Mark Bloch wrote:
> Adding a vxlan interface to a socket isn't symmetrical, while adding
> is done in vxlan_open() the deletion is done in vxlan_dellink().
> This can cause a use-after-free error when we close the vxlan
> interface before deleting it.
>
> We add vxlan_vs_del_dev() to match vxlan_vs_add_dev() and call
> it from vxlan_stop() to match the call from vxlan_open().
>
> Fixes: 56ef9c909b40 ("vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl scope")
> Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>
> Tested-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox•com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox•com>

Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-02  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-02  0:24 [net,V2] vxlan: fix use-after-free on deletion Mark Bloch
2017-06-02  3:31 ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2017-06-02 18:30 ` David Miller

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