linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bonding: 3ad: Fix the conflict between bond_update_slave

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Message-Id: <20210423.130748.1071901004935481894.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:07:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jinyiting@...wei.com
Cc:     j.vosburgh@...il.com, vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xuhanbing@...wei.com,
        wangxiaogang3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: 3ad: Fix the conflict between
 bond_update_slave_arr and the state machine

From: jinyiting <jinyiting@...wei.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:38:21 +0800

> The bond works in mode 4, and performs down/up operations on the bond
> that is normally negotiated. The probability of bond-> slave_arr is NULL
> 
> Test commands:
>    ifconfig bond1 down
>    ifconfig bond1 up
> 
> The conflict occurs in the following process：
> 
> __dev_open (CPU A)
> --bond_open
>   --queue_delayed_work(bond->wq,&bond->ad_work,0);
>   --bond_update_slave_arr
>     --bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info
> 
> ad_work(CPU B)
> --bond_3ad_state_machine_handler
>   --ad_agg_selection_logic
> 
> ad_work runs on cpu B. In the function ad_agg_selection_logic, all
> agg->is_active will be cleared. Before the new active aggregator is
> selected on CPU B, bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info failed on CPU A,
> bond->slave_arr will be set to NULL. The best aggregator in
> ad_agg_selection_logic has not changed, no need to update slave arr.
> 
> The conflict occurred in that ad_agg_selection_logic clears
> agg->is_active under mode_lock, but bond_open -> bond_update_slave_arr
> is inspecting agg->is_active outside the lock.
> 
> Also, bond_update_slave_arr is normal for potential sleep when
> allocating memory, so replace the WARN_ON with a call to might_sleep.
> 
> Signed-off-by: jinyiting <jinyiting@...wei.com>
> ---
> 
> Previous versions:
>  * https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/612b5e32-ea11-428e-0c17-e2977185f045@huawei.com/
> 
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index 74cbbb2..83ef62d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -4406,7 +4404,9 @@ int bond_update_slave_arr(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *skipslave)
>  	if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
>  		struct ad_info ad_info;
>  
> +		spin_lock_bh(&bond->mode_lock);

The code paths that call this function with mode_lock held will now deadlock.