ipv6: addrconf: fix dev refcont leak when DAD failed
authorWei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:37:00 +0000 (14:37 +0000)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:03:43 +0000 (11:03 +0100)
commit04355d6767db1b57ffb2f1d71727565ba41657b6
treeaf207e128d31378fcf4695aa369c5ccc6343e884
parent835b474b8f70fa68d68abffad37378e92f661802
ipv6: addrconf: fix dev refcont leak when DAD failed

commit 751eb6b6042a596b0080967c1a529a9fe98dac1d upstream.

In general, when DAD detected IPv6 duplicate address, ifp->state
will be set to INET6_IFADDR_STATE_ERRDAD and DAD is stopped by a
delayed work, the call tree should be like this:

ndisc_recv_ns
  -> addrconf_dad_failure        <- missing ifp put
     -> addrconf_mod_dad_work
       -> schedule addrconf_dad_work()
         -> addrconf_dad_stop()  <- missing ifp hold before call it

addrconf_dad_failure() called with ifp refcont holding but not put.
addrconf_dad_work() call addrconf_dad_stop() without extra holding
refcount. This will not cause any issue normally.

But the race between addrconf_dad_failure() and addrconf_dad_work()
may cause ifp refcount leak and netdevice can not be unregister,
dmesg show the following messages:

IPv6: eth0: IPv6 duplicate address fe80::XX:XXXX:XXXX:XX detected!
...
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c15b1ccadb32 ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing
to workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.y
Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c