tuntap: fix possible deadlock when fail to register netdev

jasowang · davem330 · commit 124da8f6118b · 2017-12-08T10:44:27.000-05:00
Private destructor could be called when register_netdev() fail with rtnl lock held. This will lead deadlock in tun_free_netdev() who tries to hold rtnl_lock. Fixing this by switching to use spinlock to synchronize. Fixes: 96f8406 ("tun: add eBPF based queue selection method") Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -2048,8 +2048,11 @@ static int __tun_set_steering_ebpf(struct tun_struct *tun,
 		new->prog = prog;
 	}
 
-	old = rtnl_dereference(tun->steering_prog);
+	spin_lock_bh(&tun->lock);
+	old = rcu_dereference_protected(tun->steering_prog,
+					lockdep_is_held(&tun->lock));
 	rcu_assign_pointer(tun->steering_prog, new);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&tun->lock);
 
 	if (old)
 		call_rcu(&old->rcu, tun_steering_prog_free);
@@ -2065,9 +2068,7 @@ static void tun_free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
 	free_percpu(tun->pcpu_stats);
 	tun_flow_uninit(tun);
 	security_tun_dev_free_security(tun->security);
-	rtnl_lock();
 	__tun_set_steering_ebpf(tun, NULL);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
