]> git.ipfire.org Git - people/ms/linux.git/commitdiff
net: fix a race in dst_release()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:51:23 +0000 (17:51 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Dec 2015 18:42:54 +0000 (13:42 -0500)
[ Upstream commit d69bbf88c8d0b367cf3e3a052f6daadf630ee566 ]

Only cpu seeing dst refcount going to 0 can safely
dereference dst->flags.

Otherwise an other cpu might already have freed the dst.

Fixes: 27b75c95f10d ("net: avoid RCU for NOCACHE dst")
Reported-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/dst.c

index 15b6792e6ebb9ef3d3f54c231044102c063c2188..c07070544e3f6093c67293804d8ec4e3731f1fb1 100644 (file)
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ void dst_release(struct dst_entry *dst)
 
                newrefcnt = atomic_dec_return(&dst->__refcnt);
                WARN_ON(newrefcnt < 0);
-               if (unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE) && !newrefcnt)
+               if (!newrefcnt && unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE))
                        call_rcu(&dst->rcu_head, dst_destroy_rcu);
        }
 }