sctp: fix the transport dead race check by using atomic_add_unless on refcnt
Now when __sctp_lookup_association is running in BH, it will try to check if t->dead is set, but meanwhile other CPUs may be freeing this transport and this assoc and if it happens that __sctp_lookup_association checked t->dead a bit too early, it may think that the association is still good while it was already freed. So we fix this race by using atomic_add_unless in sctp_transport_hold. After we get one transport from hashtable, we will hold it only when this transport's refcnt is not 0, so that we can make sure t->asoc cannot be freed before we hold the asoc again. Note that sctp association is not freed using RCU so we can't use atomic_add_unless() with it as it may just be too late for that either. Fixes: 4f008781 ("sctp: apply rhashtable api to send/recv path") Reported-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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