net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()
authorQuang Le <quanglex97@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:54:16 +0000 (13:54 -0400)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 5 Aug 2025 00:21:27 +0000 (17:21 -0700)
commit01d3c8417b9c1b884a8a981a3b886da556512f36
treecdf16c9b670acb49bf08ea12a2dbc818e1003701
parent5a40f8af2ba1b9bdf46e2db10e8c9710538fbc63
net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()

When packet_set_ring() releases po->bind_lock, another thread can
run packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event.

This race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7
("net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()").

There too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a
po->bind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And
the fix was similarly to temporarily set po->num to zero to keep
the socket unhooked until the lock is retaken.

The po->bind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the
introduction of git history.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Quang Le <quanglex97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250801175423.2970334-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/packet/af_packet.c