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net: mpls: fix stale pointer if allocation fails during device rename
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:53:55 +0000 (22:53 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:55:58 +0000 (12:55 +0100)
commit7ff0fdba82298d1f456c685e24930da89703c0fb
tree06042e78700db716e3b32a06b2da655f9d226162
parent2dd914105a1e59df820edee3a408f480f65c3705
net: mpls: fix stale pointer if allocation fails during device rename

commit fda6c89fe3d9aca073495a664e1d5aea28cd4377 upstream.

lianhui reports that when MPLS fails to register the sysctl table
under new location (during device rename) the old pointers won't
get overwritten and may be freed again (double free).

Handle this gracefully. The best option would be unregistering
the MPLS from the device completely on failure, but unfortunately
mpls_ifdown() can fail. So failing fully is also unreliable.

Another option is to register the new table first then only
remove old one if the new one succeeds. That requires more
code, changes order of notifications and two tables may be
visible at the same time.

sysctl point is not used in the rest of the code - set to NULL
on failures and skip unregister if already NULL.

Reported-by: lianhui tang <bluetlh@gmail.com>
Fixes: 0fae3bf018d9 ("mpls: handle device renames for per-device sysctls")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mpls/af_mpls.c