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Commit 818ffedf authored by Julian Anastasov's avatar Julian Anastasov Committed by Ben Hutchings
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neigh: do not modify unlinked entries

[ Upstream commit 2c51a97f ]

The lockless lookups can return entry that is unlinked.
Sometimes they get reference before last neigh_cleanup_and_release,
sometimes they do not need reference. Later, any
modification attempts may result in the following problems:

1. entry is not destroyed immediately because neigh_update
can start the timer for dead entry, eg. on change to NUD_REACHABLE
state. As result, entry lives for some time but is invisible
and out of control.

2. __neigh_event_send can run in parallel with neigh_destroy
while refcnt=0 but if timer is started and expired refcnt can
reach 0 for second time leading to second neigh_destroy and
possible crash.

Thanks to Eric Dumazet and Ying Xue for their work and analyze
on the __neigh_event_send change.

Fixes: 767e97e1 ("neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour")
Fixes: a263b309 ("ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path.")
Fixes: 6fd6ce20

 ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in ip6_finish_output2().")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop change to __neigh_set_probe_once() which
 we don't have]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent d77456d7
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