linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix a race between netvsc_send() and netvsc_init

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Message-ID: <BLUPR0301MB2098D6A07F0D465E63988D9FCCD50@BLUPR0301MB2098.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:36:21 +0000
From:   Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix a race between netvsc_send() and
 netvsc_init_buf()

Do we need ACCESS_ONCE() here to avoid check/use issues?

-----Original Message-----
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@...hat.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 2:53 PM
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>; devel@...uxdriverproject.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix a race between netvsc_send() and netvsc_init_buf()

Fix in commit 880988348270 ("hv_netvsc: set nvdev link after populating
chn_table") turns out to be incomplete. A crash in
netvsc_get_next_send_section() is observed on mtu change when the device is under load. The race I identified is: if we get to netvsc_send() after we set net_device_ctx->nvdev link in netvsc_device_add() but before we finish netvsc_connect_vsp()->netvsc_init_buf() send_section_map is not allocated and we crash. Unfortunately we can't set net_device_ctx->nvdev link after the netvsc_init_buf() call as during the negotiation we need to receive packets and on the receive path we check for it. It would probably be possible to split nvdev into a pair of nvdev_in and nvdev_out links and check them accordingly in get_outbound_net_device()/
get_inbound_net_device() but this looks like an overkill.

Check that send_section_map is allocated in netvsc_send().

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c index 720b5fa..e2bfaac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -888,6 +888,13 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
 	if (!net_device)
 		return -ENODEV;

+	/* We may race with netvsc_connect_vsp()/netvsc_init_buf() and get
+	 * here before the negotiation with the host is finished and
+	 * send_section_map may not be allocated yet.
+	 */
+	if (!net_device->send_section_map)
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
 	out_channel = net_device->chn_table[q_idx];

 	packet->send_buf_index = NETVSC_INVALID_INDEX;
--
2.7.4