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authorKrzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>2012-11-06 23:16:59 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-11-28 00:37:04 +0000
commite41faed9cde1acce657f75a0b19a1787e9850d3f (patch)
tree92354ef7b85f7684d247a9e8ebb402c5f0d86ed5 /net
parent3b1a914595f3f9beb9e38ff3ddc7bdafa092ba22 (diff)
pppoatm: fix module_put() race
The pppoatm used module_put() during unassignment from vcc with hope that we have BKL. This assumption is no longer true. Now owner field in atmvcc is used to move this module_put() to vcc_destroy_socket(). Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/atm/pppoatm.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/atm/pppoatm.c b/net/atm/pppoatm.c
index f27a07a3c546..b23c6723e87c 100644
--- a/net/atm/pppoatm.c
+++ b/net/atm/pppoatm.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ struct pppoatm_vcc {
struct atm_vcc *atmvcc; /* VCC descriptor */
void (*old_push)(struct atm_vcc *, struct sk_buff *);
void (*old_pop)(struct atm_vcc *, struct sk_buff *);
+ struct module *old_owner;
/* keep old push/pop for detaching */
enum pppoatm_encaps encaps;
atomic_t inflight;
@@ -155,8 +156,6 @@ static void pppoatm_unassign_vcc(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc)
ppp_unregister_channel(&pvcc->chan);
atmvcc->user_back = NULL;
kfree(pvcc);
- /* Gee, I hope we have the big kernel lock here... */
- module_put(THIS_MODULE);
}
/* Called when an AAL5 PDU comes in */
@@ -165,9 +164,13 @@ static void pppoatm_push(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc, struct sk_buff *skb)
struct pppoatm_vcc *pvcc = atmvcc_to_pvcc(atmvcc);
pr_debug("\n");
if (skb == NULL) { /* VCC was closed */
+ struct module *module;
+
pr_debug("removing ATMPPP VCC %p\n", pvcc);
+ module = pvcc->old_owner;
pppoatm_unassign_vcc(atmvcc);
atmvcc->push(atmvcc, NULL); /* Pass along bad news */
+ module_put(module);
return;
}
atm_return(atmvcc, skb->truesize);
@@ -362,6 +365,7 @@ static int pppoatm_assign_vcc(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc, void __user *arg)
atomic_set(&pvcc->inflight, NONE_INFLIGHT);
pvcc->old_push = atmvcc->push;
pvcc->old_pop = atmvcc->pop;
+ pvcc->old_owner = atmvcc->owner;
pvcc->encaps = (enum pppoatm_encaps) be.encaps;
pvcc->chan.private = pvcc;
pvcc->chan.ops = &pppoatm_ops;
@@ -378,6 +382,7 @@ static int pppoatm_assign_vcc(struct atm_vcc *atmvcc, void __user *arg)
atmvcc->push = pppoatm_push;
atmvcc->pop = pppoatm_pop;
__module_get(THIS_MODULE);
+ atmvcc->owner = THIS_MODULE;
/* re-process everything received between connection setup and
backend setup */