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netfilter: drop outermost socket lock in getsockopt()
The Syzbot reported a possible deadlock in the netfilter area caused by rtnl lock, xt lock and socket lock being acquired with a different order on different code paths, leading to the following backtrace: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 4.15.0+ torvalds#301 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ syzkaller233489/4179 is trying to acquire lock: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<0000000048e996fd>] rtnl_lock+0x17/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:74 but task is already holding lock: (&xt[i].mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000328553a2>] xt_find_table_lock+0x3e/0x3e0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1041 which lock already depends on the new lock. === Since commit 3f34cfae1230 ("netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock only in the required scope"), we already acquire the socket lock in the innermost scope, where needed. In such commit I forgot to remove the outer-most socket lock from the getsockopt() path, this commit addresses the issues dropping it now. v1 -> v2: fix bad subj, added relavant 'fixes' tag Fixes: 22265a5 ("netfilter: xt_TEE: resolve oif using netdevice notifiers") Fixes: 202f59a ("netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: do not hold dev") Fixes: 3f34cfae1230 ("netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock only in the required scope") Reported-by: [email protected] Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c

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@@ -1567,10 +1567,7 @@ int ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
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if (get_user(len, optlen))
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return -EFAULT;
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lock_sock(sk);
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err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval,
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&len);
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release_sock(sk);
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err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval, &len);
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if (err >= 0)
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err = put_user(len, optlen);
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return err;
@@ -1602,9 +1599,7 @@ int compat_ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
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if (get_user(len, optlen))
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return -EFAULT;
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lock_sock(sk);
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err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET, optname, optval, &len);
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release_sock(sk);
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if (err >= 0)
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err = put_user(len, optlen);
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return err;

net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c

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@@ -1367,10 +1367,7 @@ int ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
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if (get_user(len, optlen))
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return -EFAULT;
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lock_sock(sk);
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err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval,
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&len);
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release_sock(sk);
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err = nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval, &len);
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if (err >= 0)
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err = put_user(len, optlen);
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}
@@ -1409,10 +1406,7 @@ int compat_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
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if (get_user(len, optlen))
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return -EFAULT;
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lock_sock(sk);
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err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6,
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optname, optval, &len);
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release_sock(sk);
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err = compat_nf_getsockopt(sk, PF_INET6, optname, optval, &len);
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if (err >= 0)
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err = put_user(len, optlen);
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}

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