netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/8] vxlan: Restructure vxlan socket apis.

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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 08:49:36 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/8] vxlan: Restructure vxlan socket apis.

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Aug 2013 11:44:40 -0700
> Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> wrote:
>
>> @@ -1642,59 +1651,56 @@ static struct vxlan_sock *vxlan_socket_create(struct net *net, __be16 port)
>>                        &vxlan_addr.sin_addr, ntohs(vxlan_addr.sin_port), rc);
>>               sk_release_kernel(sk);
>>               kfree(vs);
>> -             return ERR_PTR(rc);
>> +             return;
>>       }
>> +     atomic_set(&vs->refcnt, 0);
>>
>>       /* Disable multicast loopback */
>>       inet_sk(sk)->mc_loop = 0;
>> +     spin_lock(&vn->sock_lock);
>> +     hlist_add_head_rcu(&vs->hlist, vs_head(net, port));
>> +     spin_unlock(&vn->sock_lock);
>
> Overall I am fine with this set, except for this.
> The change causes a socket to be put into the hash list with a ref count
> of 0 and then you increment the ref count. If some other thread
> finds the socket and then decrements the ref count, it would go
> below zero and might leak, crash or delete it prematurely.
>
> This concerns me.

There is no code path which decrements ref-cnt after lookup. Therefore
above case is not possible.
But I agree this does not look good, so I will change it so not to
have refcnt zero vs on hash-table.
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