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spidernet: fix racy double-free of skb
authorLinas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:41:03 +0000 (16:41 -0600)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:16:03 +0000 (04:16 -0500)
It appears that under certain circumstances, a race will result
in a double-free of an skb. This patch null's out the skb pointer
upon the skb free, avoiding the inadvertent deref of bogus data.
The next patch fixes the actual race.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/spider_net.c

index 10f9e29c1bbf2e60484b52e6143961b0188a3e8b..15b0bcaec46725daa8d2d863eec5a8d9f7fadc0d 100644 (file)
@@ -396,10 +396,11 @@ spider_net_free_rx_chain_contents(struct spider_net_card *card)
        descr = card->rx_chain.head;
        do {
                if (descr->skb) {
-                       dev_kfree_skb(descr->skb);
                        pci_unmap_single(card->pdev, descr->hwdescr->buf_addr,
                                         SPIDER_NET_MAX_FRAME,
                                         PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+                       dev_kfree_skb(descr->skb);
+                       descr->skb = NULL;
                }
                descr = descr->next;
        } while (descr != card->rx_chain.head);
@@ -453,6 +454,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(struct spider_net_card *card,
                        SPIDER_NET_MAX_FRAME, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
        if (pci_dma_mapping_error(buf)) {
                dev_kfree_skb_any(descr->skb);
+               descr->skb = NULL;
                if (netif_msg_rx_err(card) && net_ratelimit())
                        pr_err("Could not iommu-map rx buffer\n");
                card->spider_stats.rx_iommu_map_error++;
@@ -682,6 +684,7 @@ static int
 spider_net_prepare_tx_descr(struct spider_net_card *card,
                            struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+       struct spider_net_descr_chain *chain = &card->tx_chain;
        struct spider_net_descr *descr;
        struct spider_net_hw_descr *hwdescr;
        dma_addr_t buf;
@@ -696,10 +699,15 @@ spider_net_prepare_tx_descr(struct spider_net_card *card,
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&card->tx_chain.lock, flags);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&chain->lock, flags);
        descr = card->tx_chain.head;
+       if (descr->next == chain->tail->prev) {
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chain->lock, flags);
+               pci_unmap_single(card->pdev, buf, skb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       }
        hwdescr = descr->hwdescr;
-       card->tx_chain.head = descr->next;
+       chain->head = descr->next;
 
        descr->skb = skb;
        hwdescr->buf_addr = buf;
@@ -709,7 +717,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_tx_descr(struct spider_net_card *card,
 
        hwdescr->dmac_cmd_status =
                        SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED | SPIDER_NET_DMAC_NOCS;
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&card->tx_chain.lock, flags);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chain->lock, flags);
 
        if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP))
                switch (skb->nh.iph->protocol) {
@@ -838,6 +846,7 @@ spider_net_release_tx_chain(struct spider_net_card *card, int brutal)
                chain->tail = descr->next;
                hwdescr->dmac_cmd_status |= SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE;
                skb = descr->skb;
+               descr->skb = NULL;
                buf_addr = hwdescr->buf_addr;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chain->lock, flags);
 
@@ -903,13 +912,10 @@ spider_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 {
        int cnt;
        struct spider_net_card *card = netdev_priv(netdev);
-       struct spider_net_descr_chain *chain = &card->tx_chain;
 
        spider_net_release_tx_chain(card, 0);
 
-       if ((chain->head->next == chain->tail->prev) ||
-          (spider_net_prepare_tx_descr(card, skb) != 0)) {
-
+       if (spider_net_prepare_tx_descr(card, skb) != 0) {
                card->netdev_stats.tx_dropped++;
                netif_stop_queue(netdev);
                return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
@@ -1127,6 +1133,7 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spider_net_card *card)
 
 bad_desc:
        dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb);
+       descr->skb = NULL;
        hwdescr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE;
        return 0;
 }