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Guillaume Nault 6b9f34239b l2tp: fix races in tunnel creation
l2tp_tunnel_create() inserts the new tunnel into the namespace's tunnel
list and sets the socket's ->sk_user_data field, before returning it to
the caller. Therefore, there are two ways the tunnel can be accessed
and freed, before the caller even had the opportunity to take a
reference. In practice, syzbot could crash the module by closing the
socket right after a new tunnel was returned to pppol2tp_create().

This patch moves tunnel registration out of l2tp_tunnel_create(), so
that the caller can safely hold a reference before publishing the
tunnel. This second step is done with the new l2tp_tunnel_register()
function, which is now responsible for associating the tunnel to its
socket and for inserting it into the namespace's list.

While moving the code to l2tp_tunnel_register(), a few modifications
have been done. First, the socket validation tests are done in a helper
function, for clarity. Also, modifying the socket is now done after
having inserted the tunnel to the namespace's tunnels list. This will
allow insertion to fail, without having to revert theses modifications
in the error path (a followup patch will check for duplicate tunnels
before insertion). Either the socket is a kernel socket which we
control, or it is a user-space socket for which we have a reference on
the file descriptor. In any case, the socket isn't going to be closed
from under us.

Reported-by: syzbot+fbeeb5c3b538e8545644@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: fd558d186d ("l2tp: Split pppol2tp patch into separate l2tp and ppp parts")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-11 17:41:27 -04:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-04-09 17:04:10 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix possible uninit-value in alg_bind() 2018-04-07 22:32:31 -04:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-04-09 17:04:10 -07:00
drivers tun: send netlink notification when the device is modified 2018-04-11 14:48:05 -04:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-04-09 12:48:05 -07:00
include slip: Check if rstate is initialized before uncompressing 2018-04-11 10:33:46 -04:00
init This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.17 kernel cycle: 2018-04-05 09:51:41 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-04-09 17:04:10 -07:00
lib powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
net l2tp: fix races in tunnel creation 2018-04-11 17:41:27 -04:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-06 19:44:27 -07:00
scripts Leaking-addresses patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-07 11:56:33 -07:00
security selinux: fix missing dput() before selinuxfs unmount 2018-04-09 11:52:56 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
tools ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* 2018-03-26 02:01:23 +09:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.