netdev - [PATCH] xen-netback: fix race condition on XenBus disconnect

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Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2017 22:56:50 +0000
From:   Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@...rix.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:     <paul.durrant@...rix.com>, <jgross@...e.com>,
        <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@...rix.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xen-netback: fix race condition on XenBus disconnect

In some cases during XenBus disconnect event handling and subsequent
queue resource release there may be some TX handlers active on
other processors. Use RCU in order to synchronize with them.

Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@...rix.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c    | 17 +++++++----------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index a2d32676..32e2cc6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int xenvif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL;
-	unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
+	unsigned int num_queues = rcu_dereference(vif)->num_queues;
 	u16 index;
 	struct xenvif_rx_cb *cb;
 
@@ -221,18 +221,21 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL;
+	unsigned int num_queues;
 	u64 rx_bytes = 0;
 	u64 rx_packets = 0;
 	u64 tx_bytes = 0;
 	u64 tx_packets = 0;
 	unsigned int index;
 
-	spin_lock(&vif->lock);
-	if (vif->queues == NULL)
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	num_queues = rcu_dereference(vif)->num_queues;
+	if (num_queues < 1)
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Aggregate tx and rx stats from each queue */
-	for (index = 0; index < vif->num_queues; ++index) {
+	for (index = 0; index < num_queues; ++index) {
 		queue = &vif->queues[index];
 		rx_bytes += queue->stats.rx_bytes;
 		rx_packets += queue->stats.rx_packets;
@@ -241,7 +244,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 
 out:
-	spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_bytes = rx_bytes;
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_packets = rx_packets;
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
index d2d7cd9..76efb01 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -495,26 +495,23 @@ static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
 	struct xenvif *vif = be->vif;
 
 	if (vif) {
+		unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
 		unsigned int queue_index;
-		struct xenvif_queue *queues;
 
 		xen_unregister_watchers(vif);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 		xenvif_debugfs_delif(vif);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 		xenvif_disconnect_data(vif);
-		for (queue_index = 0;
-		     queue_index < vif->num_queues;
-		     ++queue_index)
-			xenvif_deinit_queue(&vif->queues[queue_index]);
 
-		spin_lock(&vif->lock);
-		queues = vif->queues;
 		vif->num_queues = 0;
-		vif->queues = NULL;
-		spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
+		synchronize_net();
 
-		vfree(queues);
+		for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < num_queues; ++queue_index)
+			xenvif_deinit_queue(&vif->queues[queue_index]);
+
+		vfree(vif->queues);
+		vif->queues = NULL;
 
 		xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(vif);
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1