netdev - Re: IPv6: race condition in __ipv6_ifa_notify() and dst

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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:49:39 +0200
From:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: IPv6: race condition in __ipv6_ifa_notify() and dst_free() ?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 20 avril 2010 à 19:44 +0200, Jiri Bohac a écrit :
> > --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c	2010-04-17 00:12:32.000000000 +0200
> > +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c	2010-04-20 19:07:35.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -3974,8 +3974,7 @@ static void __ipv6_ifa_notify(int event,
> >  			addrconf_leave_anycast(ifp);
> >  		addrconf_leave_solict(ifp->idev, &ifp->addr);
> >  		dst_hold(&ifp->rt->u.dst);
> > -		if (ip6_del_rt(ifp->rt))
> > -			dst_free(&ifp->rt->u.dst);
> > +		ip6_del_rt(ifp->rt);
> >  		break;
> >  	}
> >  }
> > 
> 
> 
> I dont understand the problem Jiri.
> 
> We just did dst_hold(&ifp->rt->u.dst), so if ip6_del_rt() fails we must
> dst_free(), or we leak a refcount.

Well, no ... dst_free() does not decrement the refcount.
The "opposite" of dst_hold() is dst_release(). And it does not
automatically call dst_free() when the refcount drops to 0.
dst_free() needs to be called explicitly and it apparently
expects the caller to ensure that two dst_free()s won't be called
simultaneously. But my bonding example shows this is not the
case.


-- 
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ

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