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l2tp: fix race in l2tp_recv_dequeue()

Misha Labjuk reported panics occurring in l2tp_recv_dequeue()

If we release reorder_q.lock, we must not keep a dangling pointer (tmp),
since another thread could manipulate reorder_q.

Instead we must restart the scan at beginning of list.

Reported-by: Misha Labjuk <spiked.yar@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Misha Labjuk <spiked.yar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet 13 years ago
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e2e210c023
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 2 1
      net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c

+ 2 - 1
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c

@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ static void l2tp_recv_dequeue(struct l2tp_session *session)
 	 * expect to send up next, dequeue it and any other
 	 * in-sequence packets behind it.
 	 */
+start:
 	spin_lock_bh(&session->reorder_q.lock);
 	skb_queue_walk_safe(&session->reorder_q, skb, tmp) {
 		if (time_after(jiffies, L2TP_SKB_CB(skb)->expires)) {
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ static void l2tp_recv_dequeue(struct l2tp_session *session)
 		 */
 		spin_unlock_bh(&session->reorder_q.lock);
 		l2tp_recv_dequeue_skb(session, skb);
-		spin_lock_bh(&session->reorder_q.lock);
+		goto start;
 	}
 
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