ipv6: addrconf: fix dev refcont leak when DAD failed
authorWei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 08:06:31 +0000 (16:06 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 08:07:42 +0000 (10:07 +0200)
commit8b18e0e49804ad6d481482a6663b18d99510fdfe
treeb8eb94feb1f23ebfd3cf45d2aaa65220df6f549a
parenta37a538e82b037b51ad8418c5c33d1274cfe27d4
ipv6: addrconf: fix dev refcont leak when DAD failed

commit 751eb6b6042a596b0080967c1a529a9fe98dac1d upstream.

In general, when DAD detected IPv6 duplicate address, ifp->state
will be set to INET6_IFADDR_STATE_ERRDAD and DAD is stopped by a
delayed work, the call tree should be like this:

ndisc_recv_ns
  -> addrconf_dad_failure        <- missing ifp put
     -> addrconf_mod_dad_work
       -> schedule addrconf_dad_work()
         -> addrconf_dad_stop()  <- missing ifp hold before call it

addrconf_dad_failure() called with ifp refcont holding but not put.
addrconf_dad_work() call addrconf_dad_stop() without extra holding
refcount. This will not cause any issue normally.

But the race between addrconf_dad_failure() and addrconf_dad_work()
may cause ifp refcount leak and netdevice can not be unregister,
dmesg show the following messages:

IPv6: eth0: IPv6 duplicate address fe80::XX:XXXX:XXXX:XX detected!
...
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Fixes: c15b1ccadb32 ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing
to workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c