To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...>, John W. Linville <linville@...>, David S. Miller <davem@...>
Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>, Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...>, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...>, <netdev@...>, Greg KH <gregkh@...>
device_rename only performs useful and race free validity
checking at the optional sysfs level so depending on it
for all of the validity checking in cfg80211_dev_rename
is racy.
Instead implement all of the needed validity checking
and locking in cfg80211_dev_rename.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
net/wireless/core.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index 80afacd..f1da0b9 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -143,8 +143,11 @@ void cfg80211_put_dev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv)
int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
char *newname)
{
+ struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv;
int idx, taken = -1, result, digits;
+ mutex_lock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
+
/* prohibit calling the thing phy%d when %d is not its number */
sscanf(newname, PHY_NAME "%d%n", &idx, &taken);
if (taken == strlen(newname) && idx != rdev->idx) {
@@ -156,14 +159,30 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
* deny the name if it is phy<idx> where <idx> is printed
* without leading zeroes. taken == strlen(newname) here
*/
+ result = -EINVAL;
if (taken == strlen(PHY_NAME) + digits)
- return -EINVAL;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+
+ /* Ignore nop renames */
+ result = 0;
+ if (strcmp(newname, dev_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev)) == 0)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ /* Ensure another device does not already have this name. */
+ list_for_each_entry(drv, &cfg80211_drv_list, list) {
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ if (strcmp(newname, dev_name(&drv->wiphy.dev)) == 0)
+ goto out_unlock;
}
- /* this will check for collisions */
+ /* this will only check for collisions in sysfs
+ * which is not even always compiled in.
+ */
result = device_rename(&rdev->wiphy.dev, newname);
if (result)
- return result;
+ goto out_unlock;
if (!debugfs_rename(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent,
rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir,
@@ -172,9 +191,13 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
printk(KERN_ERR "cfg80211: failed to rename debugfs dir to %s!\n",
newname);
- nl80211_notify_dev_rename(rdev);
+ result = 0;
+out_unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
+ if (result == 0)
+ nl80211_notify_dev_rename(rdev);
- return 0;
+ return result;
}
/* exported functions */
--
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
--
