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netlink: don't send NETLINK_URELEASE for unbound sockets
authorDmitry Ivanov <dmitrijs.ivanovs@ubnt.com>
Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:31:38 +0000 (09:31 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 4 May 2016 21:48:45 +0000 (14:48 -0700)
commit95415ac5786f483c7c69145ae644bc64c2240776
treef3be1e6b38229d8df56f56afe790a20f5800588f
parent56b8eaa38b04f147a6b825a73a31b826b6051604
netlink: don't send NETLINK_URELEASE for unbound sockets

commit e27260203912b40751fa353d009eaa5a642c739f upstream.

All existing users of NETLINK_URELEASE use it to clean up resources that
were previously allocated to a socket via some command. As a result, no
users require getting this notification for unbound sockets.

Sending it for unbound sockets, however, is a problem because any user
(including unprivileged users) can create a socket that uses the same ID
as an existing socket. Binding this new socket will fail, but if the
NETLINK_URELEASE notification is generated for such sockets, the users
thereof will be tricked into thinking the socket that they allocated the
resources for is closed.

In the nl80211 case, this will cause destruction of virtual interfaces
that still belong to an existing hostapd process; this is the case that
Dmitry noticed. In the NFC case, it will cause a poll abort. In the case
of netlink log/queue it will cause them to stop reporting events, as if
NFULNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND/NFQNL_CFG_CMD_UNBIND had been called.

Fix this problem by checking that the socket is bound before generating
the NETLINK_URELEASE notification.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov <dima@ubnt.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c