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netfilter: drop outermost socket lock in getsockopt()
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The Syzbot reported a possible deadlock in the netfilter area caused by
rtnl lock, xt lock and socket lock being acquired with a different order
on different code paths, leading to the following backtrace:
Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
4.15.0+ raspberrypi#301 Not tainted
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syzkaller233489/4179 is trying to acquire lock:
  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<0000000048e996fd>] rtnl_lock+0x17/0x20
net/core/rtnetlink.c:74

but task is already holding lock:
  (&xt[i].mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000328553a2>]
xt_find_table_lock+0x3e/0x3e0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1041

which lock already depends on the new lock.
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Since commit 3f34cfae1230 ("netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock
only in the required scope"), we already acquire the socket lock in
the innermost scope, where needed. In such commit I forgot to remove
the outer-most socket lock from the getsockopt() path, this commit
addresses the issues dropping it now.

v1 -> v2: fix bad subj, added relavant 'fixes' tag

Fixes: 22265a5 ("netfilter: xt_TEE: resolve oif using netdevice notifiers")
Fixes: 202f59a ("netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: do not hold dev")
Fixes: 3f34cfae1230 ("netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock only in the required scope")
Reported-by: syzbot+ddde1c7b7ff7442d7f2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Paolo Abeni authored and ummakynes committed Feb 14, 2018
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7 changes: 1 addition & 6 deletions net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
Expand Up @@ -1567,10 +1567,7 @@ int ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
if (get_user(len, optlen))
return -EFAULT;

lock_sock(sk);
err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval,
&len);
release_sock(sk);
err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval, &len);
if (err >= 0)
err = put_user(len, optlen);
return err;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1602,9 +1599,7 @@ int compat_ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
if (get_user(len, optlen))
return -EFAULT;

lock_sock(sk);
err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval, &len);
release_sock(sk);
if (err >= 0)
err = put_user(len, optlen);
return err;
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10 changes: 2 additions & 8 deletions net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
Expand Up @@ -1367,10 +1367,7 @@ int ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
if (get_user(len, optlen))
return -EFAULT;

lock_sock(sk);
err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval,
&len);
release_sock(sk);
err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval, &len);
if (err >= 0)
err = put_user(len, optlen);
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1409,10 +1406,7 @@ int compat_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
if (get_user(len, optlen))
return -EFAULT;

lock_sock(sk);
err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6,
optname, optval, &len);
release_sock(sk);
err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval, &len);
if (err >= 0)
err = put_user(len, optlen);
}
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