ppp: defer netns reference release for ppp channel
commit 205e1e25 upstream. Matt reported that we have a NULL pointer dereference in ppp_pernet() from ppp_connect_channel(), i.e. pch->chan_net is NULL. This is due to that a parallel ppp_unregister_channel() could happen while we are in ppp_connect_channel(), during which pch->chan_net set to NULL. Since we need a reference to net per channel, it makes sense to sync the refcnt with the life time of the channel, therefore we should release this reference when we destroy it. Fixes: 1f461dcd ("ppp: take reference on channels netns") Reported-by: Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Cc: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: bmajal222 <bmajal222@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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