netdev - Re: [PATCH] inetpeer: fix a race in inetpeer_gc

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:19:12 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inetpeer: fix a race in inetpeer_gc_worker()

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 13:56 +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:28:27AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > commit 5faa5df1fa2024 (inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with
> > the routing cache) added a race :
> > 
> > Before freeing an inetpeer, we must respect a RCU grace period, and make
> > sure no user will attempt to increase refcnt.
> > 
> 
> As already mentioned in the other mail. In this case, I think
> we can just delete the inetpeer once the refcount got zero.
> 

Nope, a concurrent lookup can find an entry about to be freed.

We must prevent it to increase the refcount from 0 to 1.

And we must wait a RCU grace period before freeing inetpeer.

Alternative would be the following patch :


diff --git a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
index d4d61b6..6df9951 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -560,6 +560,17 @@ bool inet_peer_xrlim_allow(struct inet_peer *peer, int timeout)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_peer_xrlim_allow);
 
+static void inetpeer_inval_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct inet_peer *p = container_of(head, struct inet_peer, rcu);
+
+	spin_lock(&gc_lock);
+	list_add_tail(&p->gc_list, &gc_list);
+	spin_unlock(&gc_lock);
+
+	schedule_delayed_work(&gc_work, gc_delay);
+}
+
 void inetpeer_invalidate_tree(int family)
 {
 	struct inet_peer *old, *new, *prev;
@@ -576,10 +587,7 @@ void inetpeer_invalidate_tree(int family)
 	prev = cmpxchg(&base->root, old, new);
 	if (prev == old) {
 		base->total = 0;
-		spin_lock(&gc_lock);
-		list_add_tail(&prev->gc_list, &gc_list);
-		spin_unlock(&gc_lock);
-		schedule_delayed_work(&gc_work, gc_delay);
+		call_rcu(&prev->rcu, inetpeer_inval_rcu);
 	}
 
 out:


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