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fix ip6_frags.ctl oops

PATCH Applied Daniel Lezcano 2 participants 2 messages Jan 18, 2008 – Jan 19, 2008

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PATCH 1/1 fix ip6_frags.ctl oops

Subject: fix ip6_frag ctl
From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

Alexey Dobriyan reported an oops when unsharing the network indefinitely inside a loop. This is because the ip6_frag is not per namespace while the ctls are.

That happens at the fragment timer expiration: inet_frag_secret_rebuild function is called and this one restarts the timer using the value stored inside the sysctl field.

        "mod_timer(&f->secret_timer, now + f->ctl->secret_interval);"

When the network is unshared, ip6_frag.ctl is initialized with the new sysctl instances, but ip6_frag has only one instance. A race in this case will appear because f->ctl can be modified during the read access in the timer callback.

Until the ip6_frag is not per namespace, I discard the assignation to the ctl field of ip6_frags in ip6_frag_sysctl_init when the network namespace is not the init net.

---
 net/ipv6/reassembly.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
net/ipv6/reassembly.c +3 -0
Index: net-2.6.25-misc/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
===================================================================
@@ -627,6 +627,9 @@ static struct inet6_protocol frag_protoc
 
 void ipv6_frag_sysctl_init(struct net *net)
 {
+	if (net != &init_net)
+		return;
+
 	ip6_frags.ctl = &net->ipv6.sysctl.frags;
 }