| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | | Subject | [PATCH 4.3 019/125] net: fix a race in dst_release() | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 2015 10:00:32 -0500 |
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4.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
[ Upstream commit d69bbf88c8d0b367cf3e3a052f6daadf630ee566 ]
Only cpu seeing dst refcount going to 0 can safely dereference dst->flags.
Otherwise an other cpu might already have freed the dst.
Fixes: 27b75c95f10d ("net: avoid RCU for NOCACHE dst") Reported-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- net/core/dst.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ void dst_release(struct dst_entry *dst) if (unlikely(newrefcnt < 0)) net_warn_ratelimited("%s: dst:%p refcnt:%d\n", __func__, dst, newrefcnt); - if (unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE) && !newrefcnt) + if (!newrefcnt && unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE)) call_rcu(&dst->rcu_head, dst_destroy_rcu); } }
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