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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2007-09-14 11:10:24 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:49:26 -0700
commitd4e46a3d9869563c6210b01bb651c40cbe65da80 (patch)
treed37626d8077c0eaca35ec41e705c62af2a324847 /net/mac80211
parentc29b9b9b0235d56e5602f61ed38702dd376aae20 (diff)
[MAC80211]: fix race conditions with keys
During receive processing, we select the key long before using it and because there's no locking it is possible that we kfree() the key after having selected it but before using it for crypto operations. Obviously, this is bad. Secondly, during transmit processing, there are two possible races: We have a similar race between select_key() and using it for encryption, but we also have a race here between select_key() and hardware encryption (both when a key is removed.) This patch solves these issues by using RCU: when a key is to be freed, we first remove the pointer from the appropriate places (sdata->keys, sdata->default_key, sta->key) using rcu_assign_pointer() and then synchronize_rcu(). Then, we can safely kfree() the key and remove it from the hardware. There's a window here where the hardware may still be using it for decryption, but we can't work around that without having two hardware callbacks, one to disable the key for RX and one to disable it for TX; but the worst thing that will happen is that we receive a packet decrypted that we don't find a key for any more and then drop it. When we add a key, we first need to upload it to the hardware and then, using rcu_assign_pointer() again, link it into our structures. In the code using keys (TX/RX paths) we use rcu_dereference() to get the key and enclose the whole tx/rx section in a rcu_read_lock() ... rcu_read_unlock() block. Because we've uploaded the key to hardware before linking it into internal structures, we can guarantee that it is valid once get to into tx(). One possible race condition remains, however: when we have hardware acceleration enabled and the driver shuts down the queues, we end up queueing the frame. If now somebody removes the key, the key will be removed from hwaccel and then then driver will be asked to encrypt the frame with a key index that has been removed. Hence, drivers will need to be aware that the hw_key_index they are passed might not be under all circumstances. Most drivers will, however, simply ignore that condition and encrypt the frame with the selected key anyway, this only results in a frame being encrypted with a wrong key or dropped (rightfully) because the key was not valid. There isn't much we can do about it unless we want to walk the pending frame queue every time a key is removed and remove all frames that used it. This race condition, however, will most likely be solved once we add multiqueue support to mac80211 because then frames will be queued further up the stack instead of after being processed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c5
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/key.c43
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c20
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c20
4 files changed, 61 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
index 1d585cc2c8c..10ec05624a6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
@@ -73,11 +73,8 @@ static int ieee80211_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, u8 *sta_addr,
key = NULL;
} else {
/*
- * Need to free it before allocating a new one with
- * with the same index or the ordering to the driver's
- * set_key() callback becomes confused.
+ * Automatically frees any old key if present.
*/
- ieee80211_key_free(key);
key = ieee80211_key_alloc(sdata, sta, alg, idx, key_len, _key);
if (!key) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
index 178f00cf61b..19e77f626d8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <net/mac80211.h>
#include "ieee80211_i.h"
#include "debugfs_key.h"
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
{
struct ieee80211_key *key;
+ BUG_ON(idx < 0 || idx >= NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS);
BUG_ON(alg == ALG_NONE);
key = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ieee80211_key) + key_len, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -157,9 +159,15 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
ieee80211_debugfs_key_add(key->local, key);
+ /* remove key first */
+ if (sta)
+ ieee80211_key_free(sta->key);
+ else
+ ieee80211_key_free(sdata->keys[idx]);
+
if (sta) {
ieee80211_debugfs_key_sta_link(key, sta);
- sta->key = key;
+
/*
* some hardware cannot handle TKIP with QoS, so
* we indicate whether QoS could be in use.
@@ -179,21 +187,19 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
sta_info_put(ap);
}
}
-
- if (idx >= 0 && idx < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS) {
- if (!sdata->keys[idx])
- sdata->keys[idx] = key;
- else
- WARN_ON(1);
- } else
- WARN_ON(1);
}
- list_add(&key->list, &sdata->key_list);
-
+ /* enable hwaccel if appropriate */
if (netif_running(key->sdata->dev))
ieee80211_key_enable_hw_accel(key);
+ if (sta)
+ rcu_assign_pointer(sta->key, key);
+ else
+ rcu_assign_pointer(sdata->keys[idx], key);
+
+ list_add(&key->list, &sdata->key_list);
+
return key;
}
@@ -202,20 +208,25 @@ void ieee80211_key_free(struct ieee80211_key *key)
if (!key)
return;
- ieee80211_key_disable_hw_accel(key);
-
if (key->sta) {
- key->sta->key = NULL;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(key->sta->key, NULL);
} else {
if (key->sdata->default_key == key)
ieee80211_set_default_key(key->sdata, -1);
if (key->conf.keyidx >= 0 &&
key->conf.keyidx < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS)
- key->sdata->keys[key->conf.keyidx] = NULL;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(key->sdata->keys[key->conf.keyidx],
+ NULL);
else
WARN_ON(1);
}
+ /* wait for all key users to complete */
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
+ /* remove from hwaccel if appropriate */
+ ieee80211_key_disable_hw_accel(key);
+
if (key->conf.alg == ALG_CCMP)
ieee80211_aes_key_free(key->u.ccmp.tfm);
ieee80211_debugfs_key_remove(key);
@@ -235,7 +246,7 @@ void ieee80211_set_default_key(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, int idx)
if (sdata->default_key != key) {
ieee80211_debugfs_key_remove_default(sdata);
- sdata->default_key = key;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(sdata->default_key, key);
if (sdata->default_key)
ieee80211_debugfs_key_add_default(sdata);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 4fb8c7026f1..91b7886bf79 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <net/mac80211.h>
#include <net/ieee80211_radiotap.h>
@@ -311,6 +312,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_load_key(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) rx->skb->data;
int keyidx;
int hdrlen;
+ struct ieee80211_key *stakey = NULL;
/*
* Key selection 101
@@ -348,8 +350,11 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_load_key(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
if (!(rx->flags & IEEE80211_TXRXD_RXRA_MATCH))
return TXRX_CONTINUE;
- if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) && rx->sta && rx->sta->key) {
- rx->key = rx->sta->key;
+ if (rx->sta)
+ stakey = rcu_dereference(rx->sta->key);
+
+ if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) && stakey) {
+ rx->key = stakey;
} else {
/*
* The device doesn't give us the IV so we won't be
@@ -374,7 +379,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_load_key(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
*/
keyidx = rx->skb->data[hdrlen + 3] >> 6;
- rx->key = rx->sdata->keys[keyidx];
+ rx->key = rcu_dereference(rx->sdata->keys[keyidx]);
/*
* RSNA-protected unicast frames should always be sent with
@@ -1364,6 +1369,12 @@ void __ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
skb_pull(skb, radiotap_len);
}
+ /*
+ * key references are protected using RCU and this requires that
+ * we are in a read-site RCU section during receive processing
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
memset(&rx, 0, sizeof(rx));
rx.skb = skb;
@@ -1404,6 +1415,7 @@ void __ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers(local, local->rx_handlers, &rx,
rx.sta);
sta_info_put(sta);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -1465,6 +1477,8 @@ void __ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
read_unlock(&local->sub_if_lock);
end:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
if (sta)
sta_info_put(sta);
}
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 0820f127da2..b29dc70b2f0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <net/ieee80211_radiotap.h>
#include <net/cfg80211.h>
@@ -427,14 +428,16 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
static ieee80211_txrx_result
ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
{
+ struct ieee80211_key *key;
+
tx->u.tx.control->key_idx = HW_KEY_IDX_INVALID;
if (unlikely(tx->u.tx.control->flags & IEEE80211_TXCTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT))
tx->key = NULL;
- else if (tx->sta && tx->sta->key)
- tx->key = tx->sta->key;
- else if (tx->sdata->default_key)
- tx->key = tx->sdata->default_key;
+ else if (tx->sta && (key = rcu_dereference(tx->sta->key)))
+ tx->key = key;
+ else if ((key = rcu_dereference(tx->sdata->default_key)))
+ tx->key = key;
else if (tx->sdata->drop_unencrypted &&
!(tx->sdata->eapol && ieee80211_is_eapol(tx->skb))) {
I802_DEBUG_INC(tx->local->tx_handlers_drop_unencrypted);
@@ -1112,6 +1115,12 @@ static int ieee80211_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
return 0;
}
+ /*
+ * key references are protected using RCU and this requires that
+ * we are in a read-site RCU section during receive processing
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
sta = tx.sta;
tx.u.tx.mgmt_interface = mgmt;
tx.u.tx.mode = local->hw.conf.mode;
@@ -1139,6 +1148,7 @@ static int ieee80211_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (unlikely(res == TXRX_QUEUED)) {
I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_handlers_queued);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return 0;
}
@@ -1196,6 +1206,7 @@ retry:
store->last_frag_rate_ctrl_probe =
!!(tx.flags & IEEE80211_TXRXD_TXPROBE_LAST_FRAG);
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return 0;
drop:
@@ -1205,6 +1216,7 @@ retry:
if (tx.u.tx.extra_frag[i])
dev_kfree_skb(tx.u.tx.extra_frag[i]);
kfree(tx.u.tx.extra_frag);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return 0;
}