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Patch "nl80211: fix dumpit error path RTNL deadlocks" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nl80211: fix dumpit error path RTNL deadlocks

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nl80211-fix-dumpit-error-path-rtnl-deadlocks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From ea90e0dc8cecba6359b481e24d9c37160f6f524f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:26:04 +0100
Subject: nl80211: fix dumpit error path RTNL deadlocks

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

commit ea90e0dc8cecba6359b481e24d9c37160f6f524f upstream.

Sowmini pointed out Dmitry's RTNL deadlock report to me, and it turns out to be perfectly accurate - there are various error paths that miss unlock of the RTNL.

To fix those, change the locking a bit to not be conditional in all those nl80211_prepare_*_dump() functions, but make those require the RTNL to start with, and fix the buggy error paths. This also let me use sparse (by appropriately overriding the rtnl_lock/rtnl_unlock functions) to validate the changes.

Reported-by Sowmini Varadhan <[email protected]>
Reported-by Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |  121 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
net/wireless/nl80211.c +53 -68
@@ -492,21 +492,17 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 {
 	int err;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
-
 	if (!cb->args[0]) {
 		err = nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + nl80211_fam.hdrsize,
 				  nl80211_fam.attrbuf, nl80211_fam.maxattr,
 				  nl80211_policy);
 		if (err)
-			goto out_unlock;
+			return err;
 
 		*wdev = __cfg80211_wdev_from_attrs(sock_net(skb->sk),
 						   nl80211_fam.attrbuf);
-		if (IS_ERR(*wdev)) {
-			err = PTR_ERR(*wdev);
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (IS_ERR(*wdev))
+			return PTR_ERR(*wdev);
 		*rdev = wiphy_to_rdev((*wdev)->wiphy);
 		/* 0 is the first index - add 1 to parse only once */
 		cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx + 1;

@@ -516,10 +512,8 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 		struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0] - 1);
 		struct wireless_dev *tmp;
 
-		if (!wiphy) {
-			err = -ENODEV;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!wiphy)
+			return -ENODEV;
 		*rdev = wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy);
 		*wdev = NULL;
 

@@ -530,21 +524,11 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (!*wdev) {
-			err = -ENODEV;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!*wdev)
+			return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
- out_unlock:
-	rtnl_unlock();
-	return err;
-}
-
-static void nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
-{
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 /* IE validation */

@@ -3884,9 +3868,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct s
 	int sta_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!wdev->netdev) {
 		err = -EINVAL;

@@ -3922,7 +3907,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct s
 	cb->args[2] = sta_idx;
 	err = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return err;
 }

@@ -4639,9 +4624,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpath(struct sk_
 	int path_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!rdev->ops->dump_mpath) {
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;

@@ -4675,7 +4661,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpath(struct sk_
 	cb->args[2] = path_idx;
 	err = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }
 

@@ -4835,9 +4821,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpp(struct sk_bu
 	int path_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!rdev->ops->dump_mpp) {
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;

@@ -4870,7 +4857,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpp(struct sk_bu
 	cb->args[2] = path_idx;
 	err = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }
 

@@ -6806,9 +6793,12 @@ static int nl80211_dump_scan(struct sk_b
 	int start = cb->args[2], idx = 0;
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		return err;
+	}
 
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	spin_lock_bh(&rdev->bss_lock);

@@ -6831,7 +6821,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_scan(struct sk_b
 	wdev_unlock(wdev);
 
 	cb->args[2] = idx;
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return skb->len;
 }

@@ -6915,9 +6905,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_survey(struct sk
 	int res;
 	bool radio_stats;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	res = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (res)
-		return res;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	/* prepare_wdev_dump parsed the attributes */
 	radio_stats = nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_SURVEY_RADIO_STATS];

@@ -6958,7 +6949,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_survey(struct sk
 	cb->args[2] = survey_idx;
 	res = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return res;
 }
 

@@ -10158,17 +10149,13 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(s
 	void *data = NULL;
 	unsigned int data_len = 0;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
-
 	if (cb->args[0]) {
 		/* subtract the 1 again here */
 		struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0] - 1);
 		struct wireless_dev *tmp;
 
-		if (!wiphy) {
-			err = -ENODEV;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!wiphy)
+			return -ENODEV;
 		*rdev = wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy);
 		*wdev = NULL;
 

@@ -10189,13 +10176,11 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(s
 			  nl80211_fam.attrbuf, nl80211_fam.maxattr,
 			  nl80211_policy);
 	if (err)
-		goto out_unlock;
+		return err;
 
 	if (!nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_ID] ||
-	    !nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_SUBCMD]) {
-		err = -EINVAL;
-		goto out_unlock;
-	}
+	    !nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_SUBCMD])
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	*wdev = __cfg80211_wdev_from_attrs(sock_net(skb->sk),
 					   nl80211_fam.attrbuf);

@@ -10204,10 +10189,8 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(s
 
 	*rdev = __cfg80211_rdev_from_attrs(sock_net(skb->sk),
 					   nl80211_fam.attrbuf);
-	if (IS_ERR(*rdev)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(*rdev);
-		goto out_unlock;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(*rdev))
+		return PTR_ERR(*rdev);
 
 	vid = nla_get_u32(nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_ID]);
 	subcmd = nla_get_u32(nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_SUBCMD]);

@@ -10220,19 +10203,15 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(s
 		if (vcmd->info.vendor_id != vid || vcmd->info.subcmd != subcmd)
 			continue;
 
-		if (!vcmd->dumpit) {
-			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!vcmd->dumpit)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 		vcmd_idx = i;
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (vcmd_idx < 0) {
-		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-		goto out_unlock;
-	}
+	if (vcmd_idx < 0)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_DATA]) {
 		data = nla_data(nl80211_fam.attrbuf[NL80211_ATTR_VENDOR_DATA]);

@@ -10249,9 +10228,6 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(s
 
 	/* keep rtnl locked in successful case */
 	return 0;
- out_unlock:
-	rtnl_unlock();
-	return err;
 }
 
 static int nl80211_vendor_cmd_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,

@@ -10266,9 +10242,10 @@ static int nl80211_vendor_cmd_dump(struc
 	int err;
 	struct nlattr *vendor_data;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out;
 
 	vcmd_idx = cb->args[2];
 	data = (void *)cb->args[3];

@@ -10277,18 +10254,26 @@ static int nl80211_vendor_cmd_dump(struc
 
 	if (vcmd->flags & (WIPHY_VENDOR_CMD_NEED_WDEV |
 			   WIPHY_VENDOR_CMD_NEED_NETDEV)) {
-		if (!wdev)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (!wdev) {
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto out;
+		}
 		if (vcmd->flags & WIPHY_VENDOR_CMD_NEED_NETDEV &&
-		    !wdev->netdev)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		    !wdev->netdev) {
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto out;
+		}
 
 		if (vcmd->flags & WIPHY_VENDOR_CMD_NEED_RUNNING) {
 			if (wdev->netdev &&
-			    !netif_running(wdev->netdev))
-				return -ENETDOWN;
-			if (!wdev->netdev && !wdev->p2p_started)
-				return -ENETDOWN;
+			    !netif_running(wdev->netdev)) {
+				err = -ENETDOWN;
+				goto out;
+			}
+			if (!wdev->netdev && !wdev->p2p_started) {
+				err = -ENETDOWN;
+				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/nl80211-fix-dumpit-error-path-rtnl-deadlocks.patch