tree 8d7d84a5a9abc7ec5bcaf89337917895247b9573
parent 37de955c11b59050346e530143c20b10b4846527
author WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> 1467781956 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1483697777 +0100

ppp: defer netns reference release for ppp channel

commit 205e1e255c479f3fd77446415706463b282f94e4 upstream.

Matt reported that we have a NULL pointer dereference
in ppp_pernet() from ppp_connect_channel(),
i.e. pch->chan_net is NULL.

This is due to that a parallel ppp_unregister_channel()
could happen while we are in ppp_connect_channel(), during
which pch->chan_net set to NULL. Since we need a reference
to net per channel, it makes sense to sync the refcnt
with the life time of the channel, therefore we should
release this reference when we destroy it.

Fixes: 1f461dcdd296 ("ppp: take reference on channels netns")
Reported-by: Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: bmajal222 <bmajal222@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>