[patch 07/26] Fix ROSE module unload oops.

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 11:25:32 EST


2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

changeset 891e6a931255238dddd08a7b306871240961a27f from mainline.

Commit a3d384029aa304f8f3f5355d35f0ae274454f7cd aka
"[AX.25]: Fix unchecked rose_add_loopback_neigh uses"
transformed rose_loopback_neigh var into statically allocated one.
However, on unload it will be kfree's which can't work.

Steps to reproduce:

modprobe rose
rmmod rose

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
printing eip:
c014c664
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: rose ax25 fan ufs loop usbhid rtc snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ehci_hcd ac97_bus uhci_hcd thermal usbcore button processor evdev sr_mod cdrom
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c014c664>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00210086 (2.6.23-rc9 #3)
EIP is at kfree+0x48/0xa1
eax: 00000556 ebx: c1734aa0 ecx: f6a5e000 edx: f7082000
esi: 00000000 edi: f9a55d20 ebp: 00200287 esp: f6a5ef28
ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 0000 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
Process rmmod (pid: 1823, ti=f6a5e000 task=f7082000 task.ti=f6a5e000)
Stack: f9a55d20 f9a5200c 00000000 00000000 00000000 f6a5e000 f9a5200c f9a55a00
00000000 bf818cf0 f9a51f3f f9a55a00 00000000 c0132c60 65736f72 00000000
f69f9630 f69f9528 c014244a f6a4e900 00200246 f7082000 c01025e6 00000000
Call Trace:
[<f9a5200c>] rose_rt_free+0x1d/0x49 [rose]
[<f9a5200c>] rose_rt_free+0x1d/0x49 [rose]
[<f9a51f3f>] rose_exit+0x4c/0xd5 [rose]
[<c0132c60>] sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x186
[<c014244a>] remove_vma+0x40/0x45
[<c01025e6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x8f/0x99
[<c012bacf>] trace_hardirqs_on+0x118/0x13b
[<c01025b6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
=======================
Code: 05 03 1d 80 db 5b c0 8b 03 25 00 40 02 00 3d 00 40 02 00 75 03 8b 5b 0c 8b 73 10 8b 44 24 18 89 44 24 04 9c 5d fa e8 77 df fd ff <8b> 56 08 89 f8 e8 84 f4 fd ff e8 bd 32 06 00 3b 5c 86 60 75 0f
EIP: [<c014c664>] kfree+0x48/0xa1 SS:ESP 0068:f6a5ef28

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
include/net/rose.h | 2 +-
net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 4 ++--
net/rose/rose_route.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/rose.h
+++ b/include/net/rose.h
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ extern void rose_kick(struct sock *);
extern void rose_enquiry_response(struct sock *);

/* rose_route.c */
-extern struct rose_neigh rose_loopback_neigh;
+extern struct rose_neigh *rose_loopback_neigh;
extern const struct file_operations rose_neigh_fops;
extern const struct file_operations rose_nodes_fops;
extern const struct file_operations rose_routes_fops;
--- a/net/rose/rose_loopback.c
+++ b/net/rose/rose_loopback.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void rose_loopback_timer(unsigned

skb_reset_transport_header(skb);

- sk = rose_find_socket(lci_o, &rose_loopback_neigh);
+ sk = rose_find_socket(lci_o, rose_loopback_neigh);
if (sk) {
if (rose_process_rx_frame(sk, skb) == 0)
kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static void rose_loopback_timer(unsigned

if (frametype == ROSE_CALL_REQUEST) {
if ((dev = rose_dev_get(dest)) != NULL) {
- if (rose_rx_call_request(skb, dev, &rose_loopback_neigh, lci_o) == 0)
+ if (rose_rx_call_request(skb, dev, rose_loopback_neigh, lci_o) == 0)
kfree_skb(skb);
} else {
kfree_skb(skb);
--- a/net/rose/rose_route.c
+++ b/net/rose/rose_route.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rose_neigh_list_l
static struct rose_route *rose_route_list;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rose_route_list_lock);

-struct rose_neigh rose_loopback_neigh;
+struct rose_neigh *rose_loopback_neigh;

/*
* Add a new route to a node, and in the process add the node and the
@@ -362,7 +362,12 @@ out:
*/
void rose_add_loopback_neigh(void)
{
- struct rose_neigh *sn = &rose_loopback_neigh;
+ struct rose_neigh *sn;
+
+ rose_loopback_neigh = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rose_neigh), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!rose_loopback_neigh)
+ return;
+ sn = rose_loopback_neigh;

sn->callsign = null_ax25_address;
sn->digipeat = NULL;
@@ -417,13 +422,13 @@ int rose_add_loopback_node(rose_address
rose_node->mask = 10;
rose_node->count = 1;
rose_node->loopback = 1;
- rose_node->neighbour[0] = &rose_loopback_neigh;
+ rose_node->neighbour[0] = rose_loopback_neigh;

/* Insert at the head of list. Address is always mask=10 */
rose_node->next = rose_node_list;
rose_node_list = rose_node;

- rose_loopback_neigh.count++;
+ rose_loopback_neigh->count++;

out:
spin_unlock_bh(&rose_node_list_lock);
@@ -454,7 +459,7 @@ void rose_del_loopback_node(rose_address

rose_remove_node(rose_node);

- rose_loopback_neigh.count--;
+ rose_loopback_neigh->count--;

out:
spin_unlock_bh(&rose_node_list_lock);

--
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