linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.4 30/37] net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib

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Date:	Tue,  4 Feb 2014 13:01:06 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@....com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 30/37] net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast forwarding

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

[ Upstream commit 95f4a45de1a0f172b35451fc52283290adb21f6e ]

Bob Falken reported that after 4G packets, multicast forwarding stopped
working. This was because of a rule reference counter overflow which
freed the rule as soon as the overflow happend.

This patch solves this by adding the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag to
fib_rules_lookup calls. This is safe even from non-rcu locked sections
as in this case the flag only implies not taking a reference to the rule,
which we don't need at all.

Rules only hold references to the namespace, which are guaranteed to be
available during the call of the non-rcu protected function reg_vif_xmit
because of the interface reference which itself holds a reference to
the net namespace.

Fixes: f0ad0860d01e47 ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables")
Fixes: d1db275dd3f6e4 ("ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables")
Reported-by: Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@....com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/ipmr.c  |    7 +++++--
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c |    7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -154,9 +154,12 @@ static struct mr_table *ipmr_get_table(s
 static int ipmr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *flp4,
 			   struct mr_table **mrt)
 {
-	struct ipmr_result res;
-	struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
 	int err;
+	struct ipmr_result res;
+	struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+		.result = &res,
+		.flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+	};
 
 	err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv4.mr_rules_ops,
 			       flowi4_to_flowi(flp4), 0, &arg);
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
@@ -138,9 +138,12 @@ static struct mr6_table *ip6mr_get_table
 static int ip6mr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi6 *flp6,
 			    struct mr6_table **mrt)
 {
-	struct ip6mr_result res;
-	struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
 	int err;
+	struct ip6mr_result res;
+	struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+		.result = &res,
+		.flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+	};
 
 	err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv6.mr6_rules_ops,
 			       flowi6_to_flowi(flp6), 0, &arg);


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