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authorNiels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com>2022-02-23 14:19:56 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-02-24 09:10:23 -0800
commit6c0d8833a605e195ae219b5042577ce52bf71fff (patch)
tree2d598899295e7c4f956902539bcec566df92a121 /net/ipv6/addrconf.c
parent7ff57e98fb78ad94edafbdc7435f2d745e9e6bb5 (diff)
downloadlinux-6c0d8833a605e195ae219b5042577ce52bf71fff.tar.gz
ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes
valid_lft, prefered_lft and tstamp are always accessed under the lock "lock" in other places. Reading these without taking the lock may result in inconsistencies regarding the calculation of the valid and preferred variables since decisions are taken on these fields for those variables. Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@ugent.be> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220223131954.6570-1-niels.dossche@ugent.be Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/addrconf.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/addrconf.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 3f23da8c0b102..6c8ab3e6e6fe1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4998,6 +4998,7 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
nla_put_s32(skb, IFA_TARGET_NETNSID, args->netnsid))
goto error;
+ spin_lock_bh(&ifa->lock);
if (!((ifa->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) &&
(ifa->prefered_lft == INFINITY_LIFE_TIME))) {
preferred = ifa->prefered_lft;
@@ -5019,6 +5020,7 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
preferred = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
valid = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
}
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ifa->lock);
if (!ipv6_addr_any(&ifa->peer_addr)) {
if (nla_put_in6_addr(skb, IFA_LOCAL, &ifa->addr) < 0 ||