tipc: eliminate risk of finding to-be-deleted node instance
Although we have never seen it happen, we have identified the
following problematic scenario when nodes are stopped and deleted:
CPU0: CPU1:
tipc_node_xxx() //ref == 1
tipc_node_put() //ref -> 0
tipc_node_find() // node still in table
tipc_node_delete()
list_del_rcu(n. list)
tipc_node_get() //ref -> 1, bad
kfree_rcu()
tipc_node_put() //ref to 0 again.
kfree_rcu() // BOOM!
We fix this by introducing use of the conditional kref_get_if_not_zero()
instead of kref_get() in the function tipc_node_find(). This eliminates
any risk of post-mortem access.
Reported-by: Zhijiang Hu <huzhijiang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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