netlink: fix compat recvmsg

Since
commit 1dacc76d0014a034b8aca14237c127d7c19d7726
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000

    net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks

we had a race condition when setting and then
restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it,
but the fix created even worse problems.

However, the original motivation I had when I
added the code that turned out to be racy is
no longer clear to me, since we only copy up
to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include
the frag_list length. As a result, not doing
any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids
the race condition, while not introducing any
other problems.

Additionally, while preparing this patch I found
that since none of the remaining netlink code is
really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the
original skb's information for packet information
and credentials. This fixes, for example, the
group information received by compat tasks.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+, for 2.6.35 revert 1235f504aa]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 8648a9922aab..980fe4ad0016 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
         struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
         int noblock = flags&MSG_DONTWAIT;
         size_t copied;
-        struct sk_buff *skb, *frag __maybe_unused = NULL;
+        struct sk_buff *skb, *data_skb;
         int err;
 
         if (flags&MSG_OOB)
@@ -1418,45 +1418,35 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
         if (skb == NULL)
                 goto out;
 
+        data_skb = skb;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
         if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)) {
-                bool need_compat = !!(flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
-
                 /*
-                 * If this skb has a frag_list, then here that means that
-                 * we will have to use the frag_list skb for compat tasks
-                 * and the regular skb for non-compat tasks.
+                 * If this skb has a frag_list, then here that means that we
+                 * will have to use the frag_list skb's data for compat tasks
+                 * and the regular skb's data for normal (non-compat) tasks.
                  *
-                 * The skb might (and likely will) be cloned, so we can't
-                 * just reset frag_list and go on with things -- we need to
-                 * keep that. For the compat case that's easy -- simply get
-                 * a reference to the compat skb and free the regular one
-                 * including the frag. For the non-compat case, we need to
-                 * avoid sending the frag to the user -- so assign NULL but
-                 * restore it below before freeing the skb.
+                 * If we need to send the compat skb, assign it to the
+                 * 'data_skb' variable so that it will be used below for data
+                 * copying. We keep 'skb' for everything else, including
+                 * freeing both later.
                  */
-                if (need_compat) {
-                        struct sk_buff *compskb = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
-                        skb_get(compskb);
-                        kfree_skb(skb);
-                        skb = compskb;
-                } else {
-                        frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
-                        skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
-                }
+                if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)
+                        data_skb = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
         }
 #endif
 
         msg->msg_namelen = 0;
 
-        copied = skb->len;
+        copied = data_skb->len;
         if (len < copied) {
                 msg->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC;
                 copied = len;
         }
 
-        skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
-        err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, msg->msg_iov, copied);
+        skb_reset_transport_header(data_skb);
+        err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(data_skb, 0, msg->msg_iov, copied);
 
         if (msg->msg_name) {
                 struct sockaddr_nl *addr = (struct sockaddr_nl *)msg->msg_name;
@@ -1476,11 +1466,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
         }
         siocb->scm->creds = *NETLINK_CREDS(skb);
         if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
-                copied = skb->len;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
-        skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = frag;
-#endif
+                copied = data_skb->len;
 
         skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);