[PATCH] net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout()

[Norbert Slusarek]

From: Norbert Slusarek <nslusa...@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 13:14:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout()

A possible locking issue in vsock_connect_timeout() was recognized by
Eric Dumazet which might cause a null pointer dereference in
vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(). This patch assures that
vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() will be called within the lock, so a race
condition won't occur which could result in vsk->transport to be set to NULL.

Fixes: 380feae0def7 ("vsock: cancel packets when failing to connect")
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Norbert Slusarek <nslusa...@gmx.net>
---
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index 6894f21dc147..ad7dd9d93b5b 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -1243,7 +1243,6 @@ static void vsock_connect_timeout(struct work_struct 
*work)
 {
        struct sock *sk;
        struct vsock_sock *vsk;
-       int cancel = 0;

        vsk = container_of(work, struct vsock_sock, connect_work.work);
        sk = sk_vsock(vsk);
@@ -1254,11 +1253,9 @@ static void vsock_connect_timeout(struct work_struct 
*work)
                sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
                sk->sk_err = ETIMEDOUT;
                sk->sk_error_report(sk);
-               cancel = 1;
+               vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);
        }
        release_sock(sk);
-       if (cancel)
-               vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);

        sock_put(sk);
 }
--
2.30.0