From 205e1e255c479f3fd77446415706463b282f94e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: WANG Cong Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 22:12:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ppp: defer netns reference release for ppp channel Matt reported that we have a NULL pointer dereference in ppp_pernet() from ppp_connect_channel(), i.e. pch->chan_net is NULL. This is due to that a parallel ppp_unregister_channel() could happen while we are in ppp_connect_channel(), during which pch->chan_net set to NULL. Since we need a reference to net per channel, it makes sense to sync the refcnt with the life time of the channel, therefore we should release this reference when we destroy it. Fixes: 1f461dcdd296 ("ppp: take reference on channels netns") Reported-by: Matt Bennett Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Cc: Guillaume Nault Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 8dedafa1a95d..a30ee427efab 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -2601,8 +2601,6 @@ ppp_unregister_channel(struct ppp_channel *chan) spin_lock_bh(&pn->all_channels_lock); list_del(&pch->list); spin_unlock_bh(&pn->all_channels_lock); - put_net(pch->chan_net); - pch->chan_net = NULL; pch->file.dead = 1; wake_up_interruptible(&pch->file.rwait); @@ -3136,6 +3134,9 @@ ppp_disconnect_channel(struct channel *pch) */ static void ppp_destroy_channel(struct channel *pch) { + put_net(pch->chan_net); + pch->chan_net = NULL; + atomic_dec(&channel_count); if (!pch->file.dead) { -- 2.20.1