[PATCH 3.16 053/178] nl80211: fix dumpit error path RTNL deadlocks

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.46-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ea90e0dc8cecba6359b481e24d9c37160f6f524f upstream.

Sowmini pointed out Dmitry's RTNL deadlock report to me, and it turns out
to be perfectly accurate - there are various error paths that miss unlock
of the RTNL.

To fix those, change the locking a bit to not be conditional in all those
nl80211_prepare_*_dump() functions, but make those require the RTNL to
start with, and fix the buggy error paths. This also let me use sparse
(by appropriately overriding the rtnl_lock/rtnl_unlock functions) to
validate the changes.

Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop changes to nl80211_dump_interface(), nl80211_dump_mpp(),
   nl80211_prepare_vendor_dump(), nl80211_vendor_cmd_dump()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -471,21 +471,17 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 {
 	int err;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
-
 	if (!cb->args[0]) {
 		err = nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + nl80211_fam.hdrsize,
 				  nl80211_fam.attrbuf, nl80211_fam.maxattr,
 				  nl80211_policy);
 		if (err)
-			goto out_unlock;
+			return err;
 
 		*wdev = __cfg80211_wdev_from_attrs(sock_net(skb->sk),
 						   nl80211_fam.attrbuf);
-		if (IS_ERR(*wdev)) {
-			err = PTR_ERR(*wdev);
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (IS_ERR(*wdev))
+			return PTR_ERR(*wdev);
 		*rdev = wiphy_to_rdev((*wdev)->wiphy);
 		/* 0 is the first index - add 1 to parse only once */
 		cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx + 1;
@@ -495,10 +491,8 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 		struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0] - 1);
 		struct wireless_dev *tmp;
 
-		if (!wiphy) {
-			err = -ENODEV;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!wiphy)
+			return -ENODEV;
 		*rdev = wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy);
 		*wdev = NULL;
 
@@ -509,21 +503,11 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (!*wdev) {
-			err = -ENODEV;
-			goto out_unlock;
-		}
+		if (!*wdev)
+			return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
- out_unlock:
-	rtnl_unlock();
-	return err;
-}
-
-static void nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
-{
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 /* IE validation */
@@ -3727,9 +3711,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct s
 	int sta_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!wdev->netdev) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
@@ -3765,7 +3750,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct s
 	cb->args[2] = sta_idx;
 	err = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -4443,9 +4428,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpath(struct sk_
 	int path_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!rdev->ops->dump_mpath) {
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -4479,7 +4465,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_mpath(struct sk_
 	cb->args[2] = path_idx;
 	err = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -6157,9 +6143,12 @@ static int nl80211_dump_scan(struct sk_b
 	int start = cb->args[2], idx = 0;
 	int err;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	err = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		return err;
+	}
 
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	spin_lock_bh(&rdev->bss_lock);
@@ -6182,7 +6171,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_scan(struct sk_b
 	wdev_unlock(wdev);
 
 	cb->args[2] = idx;
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return skb->len;
 }
@@ -6255,9 +6244,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_survey(struct sk
 	int survey_idx = cb->args[2];
 	int res;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	res = nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(skb, cb, &rdev, &wdev);
 	if (res)
-		return res;
+		goto out_err;
 
 	if (!wdev->netdev) {
 		res = -EINVAL;
@@ -6303,7 +6293,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_survey(struct sk
 	cb->args[2] = survey_idx;
 	res = skb->len;
  out_err:
-	nl80211_finish_wdev_dump(rdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return res;
 }