netdev - Re: [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:53:05 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf_allow race

Le 04/01/2010 19:51, Flavio Leitner a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:07:03PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le 04/01/2010 12:29, Flavio Leitner a écrit :
>>  
>>> Then, I tried using call_rcu() to avoid the problem you are saying,
>>> but when you stop the reproducer, sk_free() will warn printing 
>>> "optmem leakage.." because the rcu callback didn't run yet.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is probably because your call_rcu() callback was trying to call sock_kfree_s() ?
> 
> yes, correct.
> 
>>
>>  		rtnl_unlock();
>> 		call_rcu(&iml->lock, callback_func)
>>
>> callback_func()
>> {
>> 	sock_kfree_s(sk, iml, sizeof(*iml));
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Take a look at sock_kfree_s() definition :
>>
>> void sock_kfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size)
>> {
>>         kfree(mem);
>>         atomic_sub(size, &sk->sk_omem_alloc);
>> }
>>
>>
>> You can certainly try :
>>
>> 	rtnl_unlock();
>> 	atomic_sub(sizeof(*iml), sk->sk_omem_alloc);
>> 	call_rcu(&iml->rcu, kfree);
>>
>> (immediate sk_omem_alloc handling, but deferred kfree())
> 
> Ok, below is the new version using call_rcu(). I'm still running my
> tests here, so I'm planning to resubmit it later if this version is
> okay with you.

It seems fine, but please make ip_mc_socklist_reclaim() static :

> +
> +void ip_mc_socklist_reclaim(struct rcu_head *rp)
> +{
> +	struct ip_mc_socklist *iml;
> +
> +	iml = container_of(rp, struct ip_mc_socklist, rcu);
> +	/* sk_omem_alloc should have been decreased by the caller*/
> +	kfree(iml);
> +}
> +
> +

Thanks
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