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l2tp: initialise session's refcount before making it reachable

Sessions must be fully initialised before calling
l2tp_session_add_to_tunnel(). Otherwise, there's a short time frame
where partially initialised sessions can be accessed by external users.

Fixes: dbdbc73b4478 ("l2tp: fix duplicate session creation")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Guillaume Nault 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 2 4
      net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c

+ 2 - 4
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c

@@ -1844,6 +1844,8 @@ struct l2tp_session *l2tp_session_create(int priv_size, struct l2tp_tunnel *tunn
 
 		l2tp_session_set_header_len(session, tunnel->version);
 
+		refcount_set(&session->ref_count, 1);
+
 		err = l2tp_session_add_to_tunnel(tunnel, session);
 		if (err) {
 			kfree(session);
@@ -1851,10 +1853,6 @@ struct l2tp_session *l2tp_session_create(int priv_size, struct l2tp_tunnel *tunn
 			return ERR_PTR(err);
 		}
 
-		/* Bump the reference count. The session context is deleted
-		 * only when this drops to zero.
-		 */
-		refcount_set(&session->ref_count, 1);
 		l2tp_tunnel_inc_refcount(tunnel);
 
 		/* Ensure tunnel socket isn't deleted */