From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:50:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: netconsole: Acquire su_mutex before navigating configs hierarchy
X-Git-Tag: v6.17.8~86
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff70aa7e8cf05745fdba7258952a8bedf33ea336;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

netconsole: Acquire su_mutex before navigating configs hierarchy

[ Upstream commit d7d2fcf7ae31471b4e08b7e448b8fd0ec2e06a1b ]

There is a race between operations that iterate over the userdata
cg_children list and concurrent add/remove of userdata items through
configfs. The update_userdata() function iterates over the
nt->userdata_group.cg_children list, and count_extradata_entries() also
iterates over this same list to count nodes.

Quoting from Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst:
> A subsystem can navigate the cg_children list and the ci_parent pointer
> to see the tree created by the subsystem.  This can race with configfs'
> management of the hierarchy, so configfs uses the subsystem mutex to
> protect modifications.  Whenever a subsystem wants to navigate the
> hierarchy, it must do so under the protection of the subsystem
> mutex.

Without proper locking, if a userdata item is added or removed
concurrently while these functions are iterating, the list can be
accessed in an inconsistent state. For example, the list_for_each() loop
can reach a node that is being removed from the list by list_del_init()
which sets the nodes' .next pointer to point to itself, so the loop will
never end (or reach the WARN_ON_ONCE in update_userdata() ).

Fix this by holding the configfs subsystem mutex (su_mutex) during all
operations that iterate over cg_children.
This includes:
- userdatum_value_store() which calls update_userdata() to iterate over
  cg_children
- All sysdata_*_enabled_store() functions which call
  count_extradata_entries() to iterate over cg_children

The su_mutex must be acquired before dynamic_netconsole_mutex to avoid
potential lock ordering issues, as configfs operations may already hold
su_mutex when calling into our code.

Fixes: df03f830d099 ("net: netconsole: cache userdata formatted string in netconsole_target")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-netconsole-fix-warn-v1-1-0d0dd4622f48@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index e3722de08ea9f..3ff1dfc3d26b2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -928,6 +928,7 @@ static ssize_t userdatum_value_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
 	if (count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN)
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
+	mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
 
 	ret = strscpy(udm->value, buf, sizeof(udm->value));
@@ -941,6 +942,7 @@ static ssize_t userdatum_value_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
 	ret = count;
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -966,6 +968,7 @@ static ssize_t sysdata_msgid_enabled_store(struct config_item *item,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
 	curr = !!(nt->sysdata_fields & SYSDATA_MSGID);
 	if (msgid_enabled == curr)
@@ -986,6 +989,7 @@ unlock_ok:
 	ret = strnlen(buf, count);
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1000,6 +1004,7 @@ static ssize_t sysdata_release_enabled_store(struct config_item *item,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
 	curr = !!(nt->sysdata_fields & SYSDATA_RELEASE);
 	if (release_enabled == curr)
@@ -1020,6 +1025,7 @@ unlock_ok:
 	ret = strnlen(buf, count);
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1034,6 +1040,7 @@ static ssize_t sysdata_taskname_enabled_store(struct config_item *item,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
 	curr = !!(nt->sysdata_fields & SYSDATA_TASKNAME);
 	if (taskname_enabled == curr)
@@ -1054,6 +1061,7 @@ unlock_ok:
 	ret = strnlen(buf, count);
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1069,6 +1077,7 @@ static ssize_t sysdata_cpu_nr_enabled_store(struct config_item *item,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
 	curr = !!(nt->sysdata_fields & SYSDATA_CPU_NR);
 	if (cpu_nr_enabled == curr)
@@ -1097,6 +1106,7 @@ unlock_ok:
 	ret = strnlen(buf, count);
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }