While deleting an existing ovpn interface, there is a very narrow window where adding a new peer via netlink may cause the netdevice to hang and prevent its unregistration. It may happen during ovpn_dellink(), when all existing peers are freed and the device is queued for deregistration, but a CMD_PEER_NEW message comes in adding a new peer that takes again a reference to the netdev. At this point there is no way to release the device because we are under the assumption that all peers were already released. Fix the race condition by releasing all peers in ndo_uninit(), when the netdevice has already been removed from the netdev list and thus an incoming CMD_PEER_NEW cannot have any effect anymore. At this point ovpn_dellink() becomes empty and can just be removed. Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aaVgJ16edTfQkYbx@v4bel/ Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca Fixes: 80747caef33d ("ovpn: introduce the ovpn_peer object") Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli --- drivers/net/ovpn/main.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/main.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/main.c index 2e0420febda0..0eab305780c7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ovpn/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/main.c @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ static void ovpn_net_uninit(struct net_device *dev) { struct ovpn_priv *ovpn = netdev_priv(dev); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ovpn->keepalive_work); + ovpn_peers_free(ovpn, NULL, OVPN_DEL_PEER_REASON_TEARDOWN); gro_cells_destroy(&ovpn->gro_cells); } @@ -208,15 +210,6 @@ static int ovpn_newlink(struct net_device *dev, return register_netdevice(dev); } -static void ovpn_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) -{ - struct ovpn_priv *ovpn = netdev_priv(dev); - - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ovpn->keepalive_work); - ovpn_peers_free(ovpn, NULL, OVPN_DEL_PEER_REASON_TEARDOWN); - unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head); -} - static int ovpn_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev) { struct ovpn_priv *ovpn = netdev_priv(dev); @@ -235,7 +228,6 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops ovpn_link_ops = { .policy = ovpn_policy, .maxtype = IFLA_OVPN_MAX, .newlink = ovpn_newlink, - .dellink = ovpn_dellink, .fill_info = ovpn_fill_info, }; -- 2.52.0