[PATCH 3.17 065/319] fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 upstream.

we used to check for "nobody else could start doing anything with
that opened file" by checking that refcount was 2 or less - one
for descriptor table and one we'd acquired in fget() on the way to
wherever we are.  That was race-prone (somebody else might have
had a reference to descriptor table and do fget() just as we'd
been checking) and it had become flat-out incorrect back when
we switched to fget_light() on those codepaths - unlike fget(),
it doesn't grab an extra reference unless the descriptor table
is shared.  The same change allowed a race-free check, though -
we are safe exactly when refcount is less than 2.

It was a long time ago; pre-2.6.12 for ioctl() (the codepath leading
to ppp one) and 2.6.17 for sendmsg() (netlink one).  OTOH,
netlink hadn't grown that check until 3.9 and ppp used to live
in drivers/net, not drivers/net/ppp until 3.1.  The bug existed
well before that, though, and the same fix used to apply in old
location of file.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c |    2 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file,
 			if (file == ppp->owner)
 				ppp_shutdown_interface(ppp);
 		}
-		if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) <= 2) {
+		if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) < 2) {
 			ppp_release(NULL, file);
 			err = 0;
 		} else
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ static int netlink_mmap_sendmsg(struct s
 	 * after validation, the socket and the ring may only be used by a
 	 * single process, otherwise we fall back to copying.
 	 */
-	if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 2 ||
+	if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 1 ||
 	    atomic_read(&nlk->mapped) > 1)
 		excl = false;
 


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