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    net: loopback: fix a dst refcounting issue · 794ed393
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Ben Greear reported crashes in ip_rcv_finish() on a stress
    test involving many macvlans.
    
    We tracked the bug to a dst use after free. ip_rcv_finish()
    was calling dst->input() and got garbage for dst->input value.
    
    It appears the bug is in loopback driver, lacking
    a skb_dst_force() before calling netif_rx().
    
    As a result, a non refcounted dst, normally protected by a
    RCU read_lock section, was escaping this section and could
    be freed before the packet being processed.
    
      [<ffffffff813a3c4d>] loopback_xmit+0x64/0x83
      [<ffffffff81477364>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x26c/0x35e
      [<ffffffff8147771a>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2c4/0x37c
      [<ffffffff81477456>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x35e/0x35e
      [<ffffffff8148cfa6>] ? eth_header+0x28/0xb6
      [<ffffffff81480f09>] neigh_resolve_output+0x176/0x1a7
      [<ffffffff814ad835>] ip_finish_output2+0x297/0x30d
      [<ffffffff814ad6d5>] ? ip_finish_output2+0x137/0x30d
      [<ffffffff814ad90e>] ip_finish_output+0x63/0x68
      [<ffffffff814ae412>] ip_output+0x61/0x67
      [<ffffffff814ab904>] dst_output+0x17/0x1b
      [<ffffffff814adb6d>] ip_local_out+0x1e/0x23
      [<ffffffff814ae1c4>] ip_queue_xmit+0x315/0x353
      [<ffffffff814adeaf>] ? ip_send_unicast_reply+0x2cc/0x2cc
      [<ffffffff814c018f>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x7ca/0x80b
      [<ffffffff814c3571>] tcp_connect+0x53c/0x587
      [<ffffffff810c2f0c>] ? getnstimeofday+0x44/0x7d
      [<ffffffff810c2f56>] ? ktime_get_real+0x11/0x3e
      [<ffffffff814c6f9b>] tcp_v4_connect+0x3c2/0x431
      [<ffffffff814d6913>] __inet_stream_connect+0x84/0x287
      [<ffffffff814d6b38>] ? inet_stream_connect+0x22/0x49
      [<ffffffff8108d695>] ? _local_bh_enable_ip+0x84/0x9f
      [<ffffffff8108d6c8>] ? local_bh_enable+0xd/0x11
      [<ffffffff8146763c>] ? lock_sock_nested+0x6e/0x79
      [<ffffffff814d6b38>] ? inet_stream_connect+0x22/0x49
      [<ffffffff814d6b49>] inet_stream_connect+0x33/0x49
      [<ffffffff814632c6>] sys_connect+0x75/0x98
    
    This bug was introduced in linux-2.6.35, in commit
    7fee226a
    
     (net: add a noref bit on skb dst)
    
    skb_dst_force() is enforced in dev_queue_xmit() for devices having a
    qdisc.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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