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6pack: fix free memory scribbles 

commit acf673a318 fixed a user triggerable free
memory scribble but in doing so replaced it with a different one that allows
the user to control the data and scribble even more.

sixpack_close is called by the tty layer in tty context. The tty context is
protected by sp_get() and sp_put(). However network layer activity via
sp_xmit() is not protected this way. We must therefore stop the queue
otherwise the user gets to dump a buffer mostly of their choice into freed
kernel pages.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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One Thousand Gnomes 2016-01-05 11:51:25 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 55795ef546
commit 60aa3b080a
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
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@ -683,6 +683,12 @@ static void sixpack_close(struct tty_struct *tty)
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&sp->refcnt))
down(&sp->dead_sem);
/* We must stop the queue to avoid potentially scribbling
* on the free buffers. The sp->dead_sem is not sufficient
* to protect us from sp->xbuff access.
*/
netif_stop_queue(sp->dev);
del_timer_sync(&sp->tx_t);
del_timer_sync(&sp->resync_t);