linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] cgroup: net_cls: fix false-positive "suspicious RCU usage"

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:23:20 +0300
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] cgroup: net_cls: fix false-positive "suspicious RCU
 usage"

In dev_queue_xmit() net_cls protected with rcu-bh.

[  270.730026] ===============================
[  270.730029] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  270.730033] 4.2.0-rc3+ #2 Not tainted
[  270.730036] -------------------------------
[  270.730040] include/linux/cgroup.h:353 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  270.730041] other info that might help us debug this:
[  270.730043] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[  270.730045] 2 locks held by dhclient/748:
[  270.730046]  #0:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<ffffffff81682b70>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x50/0x960
[  270.730085]  #1:  (&qdisc_tx_lock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff81682d60>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x240/0x960
[  270.730090] stack backtrace:
[  270.730096] CPU: 0 PID: 748 Comm: dhclient Not tainted 4.2.0-rc3+ #2
[  270.730098] Hardware name: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  270.730100]  0000000000000001 ffff8800bafeba58 ffffffff817ad487 0000000000000007
[  270.730103]  ffff880232a0a780 ffff8800bafeba88 ffffffff810ca4f2 ffff88022fb23e00
[  270.730105]  ffff880232a0a780 ffff8800bafebb68 ffff8800bafebb68 ffff8800bafebaa8
[  270.730108] Call Trace:
[  270.730121]  [<ffffffff817ad487>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65
[  270.730148]  [<ffffffff810ca4f2>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe2/0x120
[  270.730153]  [<ffffffff816a62d2>] task_cls_state+0x92/0xa0
[  270.730158]  [<ffffffffa00b534f>] cls_cgroup_classify+0x4f/0x120 [cls_cgroup]
[  270.730164]  [<ffffffff816aac74>] tc_classify_compat+0x74/0xc0
[  270.730166]  [<ffffffff816ab573>] tc_classify+0x33/0x90
[  270.730170]  [<ffffffffa00bcb0a>] htb_enqueue+0xaa/0x4a0 [sch_htb]
[  270.730172]  [<ffffffff81682e26>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x306/0x960
[  270.730174]  [<ffffffff81682b70>] ? __dev_queue_xmit+0x50/0x960
[  270.730176]  [<ffffffff816834a3>] dev_queue_xmit_sk+0x13/0x20
[  270.730185]  [<ffffffff81787770>] dev_queue_xmit+0x10/0x20
[  270.730187]  [<ffffffff8178b91c>] packet_snd.isra.62+0x54c/0x760
[  270.730190]  [<ffffffff8178be25>] packet_sendmsg+0x2f5/0x3f0
[  270.730203]  [<ffffffff81665245>] ? sock_def_readable+0x5/0x190
[  270.730210]  [<ffffffff817b64bb>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2b/0x40
[  270.730216]  [<ffffffff8173bcbc>] ? unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x640
[  270.730219]  [<ffffffff8165f367>] sock_sendmsg+0x47/0x50
[  270.730221]  [<ffffffff8165f42f>] sock_write_iter+0x7f/0xd0
[  270.730232]  [<ffffffff811fd4c7>] __vfs_write+0xa7/0xf0
[  270.730234]  [<ffffffff811fe5b8>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x190
[  270.730236]  [<ffffffff811fe8c2>] SyS_write+0x52/0xb0
[  270.730239]  [<ffffffff817b6bae>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c b/net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c
index 1f2a126f4ffa..6441f47b1a8f 100644
--- a/net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c
+++ b/net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ static inline struct cgroup_cls_state *css_cls_state(struct cgroup_subsys_state
 
 struct cgroup_cls_state *task_cls_state(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	return css_cls_state(task_css(p, net_cls_cgrp_id));
+	return css_cls_state(task_css_check(p, net_cls_cgrp_id,
+					    rcu_read_lock_bh_held()));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_cls_state);
 

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