Jakub Kicinski a82dc19db1 net: avoid potential race between netdev_get_by_index_lock() and netns switch
netdev_get_by_index_lock() performs following steps:

  rcu_lock();
  dev = lookup(netns, ifindex);
  dev_get(dev);
  rcu_unlock();
  [... lock & validate the dev ...]
  return dev

Validation right now only checks if the device is registered but since
the lookup is netns-aware we must also protect against the device
switching netns right after we dropped the RCU lock. Otherwise
the caller in netns1 may get a pointer to a device which has just
switched to netns2.

We can't hold the lock for the entire netns change process (because of
the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier), and there's no existing marking to
indicate that the netns is unlisted because of netns move, so add one.

AFAIU none of the existing netdev_get_by_index_lock() callers can
suffer from this problem (NAPI code double checks the netns membership
and other callers are either under rtnl_lock or not ns-sensitive),
so this patch does not have to be treated as a fix.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408195956.412733-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-04-09 17:01:51 -07:00

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