[SRU][J][PATCH 1/1] net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()

[Tim Whisonant]

From: Quang Le <quanglex97 at gmail.com>

When packet_set_ring() releases po->bind_lock, another thread can
run packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event.

This race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7
("net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()").

There too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a
po->bind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And
the fix was similarly to temporarily set po->num to zero to keep
the socket unhooked until the lock is retaken.

The po->bind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the
introduction of git history.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Quang Le <quanglex97 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250801175423.2970334-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 01d3c8417b9c1b884a8a981a3b886da556512f36)
CVE-2025-38617
Signed-off-by: Tim Whisonant <tim.whisonant at canonical.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 3f3f23b0ce422..70ba3e72dfd56 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4507,10 +4507,10 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
 	spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
 	was_running = po->running;
 	num = po->num;
-	if (was_running) {
-		WRITE_ONCE(po->num, 0);
+	WRITE_ONCE(po->num, 0);
+	if (was_running)
 		__unregister_prot_hook(sk, false);
-	}
+
 	spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
 
 	synchronize_net();
@@ -4542,10 +4542,10 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
 	mutex_unlock(&po->pg_vec_lock);
 
 	spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
-	if (was_running) {
-		WRITE_ONCE(po->num, num);
+	WRITE_ONCE(po->num, num);
+	if (was_running)
 		register_prot_hook(sk);
-	}
+
 	spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
 	if (pg_vec && (po->tp_version > TPACKET_V2)) {
 		/* Because we don't support block-based V3 on tx-ring */
-- 
2.43.0