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[NET]: Fix module reference counts for loadable protocol modules
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I have been experimenting with loadable protocol modules, and ran into
several issues with module reference counting.

The first issue was that __module_get failed at the BUG_ON check at
the top of the routine (checking that my module reference count was
not zero) when I created the first socket. When sk_alloc() is called,
my module reference count was still 0. When I looked at why sctp
didn't have this problem, I discovered that sctp creates a control
socket during module init (when the module ref count is not 0), which
keeps the reference count non-zero. This section has been updated to
address the point Stephen raised about checking the return value of
try_module_get().

The next problem arose when my socket init routine returned an error.
This resulted in my module reference count being decremented below 0.
My socket ops->release routine was also being called. The issue here
is that sock_release() calls the ops->release routine and decrements
the ref count if sock->ops is not NULL. Since the socket probably
didn't get correctly initialized, this should not be done, so we will
set sock->ops to NULL because we will not call try_module_get().

While searching for another bug, I also noticed that sys_accept() has
a possibility of doing a module_put() when it did not do an
__module_get so I re-ordered the call to security_socket_accept().

Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Frank Filz authored and davem330 committed Sep 27, 2005
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20 changes: 12 additions & 8 deletions net/core/sock.c
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Expand Up @@ -660,16 +660,20 @@ struct sock *sk_alloc(int family, unsigned int __nocast priority,
sock_lock_init(sk);
}

if (security_sk_alloc(sk, family, priority)) {
if (slab != NULL)
kmem_cache_free(slab, sk);
else
kfree(sk);
sk = NULL;
} else
__module_get(prot->owner);
if (security_sk_alloc(sk, family, priority))
goto out_free;

if (!try_module_get(prot->owner))
goto out_free;
}
return sk;

out_free:
if (slab != NULL)
kmem_cache_free(slab, sk);
else
kfree(sk);
return NULL;
}

void sk_free(struct sock *sk)
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13 changes: 8 additions & 5 deletions net/socket.c
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Expand Up @@ -1145,8 +1145,11 @@ static int __sock_create(int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res
if (!try_module_get(net_families[family]->owner))
goto out_release;

if ((err = net_families[family]->create(sock, protocol)) < 0)
if ((err = net_families[family]->create(sock, protocol)) < 0) {
sock->ops = NULL;
goto out_module_put;
}

/*
* Now to bump the refcnt of the [loadable] module that owns this
* socket at sock_release time we decrement its refcnt.
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newsock->type = sock->type;
newsock->ops = sock->ops;

err = security_socket_accept(sock, newsock);
if (err)
goto out_release;

/*
* We don't need try_module_get here, as the listening socket (sock)
* has the protocol module (sock->ops->owner) held.
*/
__module_get(newsock->ops->owner);

err = security_socket_accept(sock, newsock);
if (err)
goto out_release;

err = sock->ops->accept(sock, newsock, sock->file->f_flags);
if (err < 0)
goto out_release;
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