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      sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization · ac73bd07
      Marcelo Ricardo Leitner authored
      commit 8e2d61e0 upstream.
      
      Consider sctp module is unloaded and is being requested because an user
      is creating a sctp socket.
      
      During initialization, sctp will add the new protocol type and then
      initialize pernet subsys:
      
              status = sctp_v4_protosw_init();
              if (status)
                      goto err_protosw_init;
      
              status = sctp_v6_protosw_init();
              if (status)
                      goto err_v6_protosw_init;
      
              status = register_pernet_subsys(&sctp_net_ops);
      
      The problem is that after those calls to sctp_v{4,6}_protosw_init(), it
      is possible for userspace to create SCTP sockets like if the module is
      already fully loaded. If that happens, one of the possible effects is
      that we will have readers for net->sctp.local_addr_list list earlier
      than expected and sctp_net_init() does not take precautions while
      dealing with that list, leading to a potential panic but not limited to
      that, as sctp_sock_init() will copy a bunch of blank/partially
      initialized values from net->sctp.
      
      The race happens like this:
      
           CPU 0                           |  CPU 1
        socket()                           |
         __sock_create                     | socket()
          inet_create                      |  __sock_create
           list_for_each_entry_rcu(        |
              answer, &inetsw[sock->type], |
              list) {                      |   inet_create
            /* no hits */                  |
           if (unlikely(err)) {            |
            ...                            |
            request_module()               |
            /* socket creation is blocked  |
             * the module is fully loaded  |
             */                            |
             sctp_init                     |
              sctp_v4_protosw_init         |
               inet_register_protosw       |
                list_add_rcu(&p->list,     |
                             last_perm);   |
                                           |  list_for_each_entry_rcu(
                                           |     answer, &inetsw[sock->type],
              sctp_v6_protosw_init         |     list) {
                                           |     /* hit, so assumes protocol
                                           |      * is already loaded
                                           |      */
                                           |  /* socket creation continues
                                           |   * before netns is initialized
                                           |   */
              register_pernet_subsys       |
      
      Simply inverting the initialization order between
      register_pernet_subsys() and sctp_v4_protosw_init() is not possible
      because register_pernet_subsys() will create a control sctp socket, so
      the protocol must be already visible by then. Deferring the socket
      creation to a work-queue is not good specially because we loose the
      ability to handle its errors.
      
      So, as suggested by Vlad, the fix is to split netns initialization in
      two moments: defaults and control socket, so that the defaults are
      already loaded by when we register the protocol, while control socket
      initialization is kept at the same moment it is today.
      
      Fixes: 4db67e80 ("sctp: Make the address lists per network namespace")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
      ac73bd07