netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Fix a race between usbnet

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Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:18:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eugene.shatokhin@...alab.ru
Cc:	oneukum@...e.de, bjorn@...k.no, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Fix a race between usbnet_stop() and the BH

From: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@...alab.ru>
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 2015 17:05:33 +0300

> The race may happen when a device (e.g. YOTA 4G LTE Modem) is
> unplugged while the system is downloading a large file from the Net.
> 
> Hardware breakpoints and Kprobes with delays were used to confirm that
> the race does actually happen.
> 
> The race is on skb_queue ('next' pointer) between usbnet_stop()
> and rx_complete(), which, in turn, calls usbnet_bh().
> 
> Here is a part of the call stack with the code where the changes to the
> queue happen. The line numbers are for the kernel 4.1.0:
 ...
> As a result, it is possible, for example, that the skb is removed from
> dev->rxq by __skb_unlink() before the check
> "!skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq)" in usbnet_terminate_urbs() is made. It is
> also possible in this case that the skb is added to dev->done queue
> after "!skb_queue_empty(&dev->done)" is checked. So
> usbnet_terminate_urbs() may stop waiting and return while dev->done
> queue still has an item.
> 
> Locking in defer_bh() and usbnet_terminate_urbs() was revisited to avoid
> this race.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@...alab.ru>

Applied, thanks.
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