[NET]: Fix race when opening a proc file while a network namespace is exiting.

The problem:  proc_net files remember which network namespace the are
against but do not remember hold a reference count (as that would pin
the network namespace).   So we currently have a small window where
the reference count on a network namespace may be incremented when opening
a /proc file when it has already gone to zero.

To fix this introduce maybe_get_net and get_proc_net.

maybe_get_net increments the network namespace reference count only if it is
greater then zero, ensuring we don't increment a reference count after it
has gone to zero.

get_proc_net handles all of the magic to go from a proc inode to the network
namespace instance and call maybe_get_net on it.

PROC_NET the old accessor is removed so that we don't get confused and use
the wrong helper function.

Then I fix up the callers to use get_proc_net and handle the case case
where get_proc_net returns NULL.  In that case I return -ENXIO because
effectively the network namespace has already gone away so the files
we are trying to access don't exist anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 5964670..20741f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -270,10 +270,7 @@ static inline struct net *PDE_NET(struct proc_dir_entry *pde)
 	return pde->parent->data;
 }
 
-static inline struct net *PROC_NET(const struct inode *inode)
-{
-	return PDE_NET(PDE(inode));
-}
+struct net *get_proc_net(const struct inode *inode);
 
 struct proc_maps_private {
 	struct pid *pid;