netdev - [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: do not use zero refcnt for freed entries

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:45:24 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: do not use zero refcnt for freed
 entries

Le mardi 15 juin 2010 à 14:25 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:23:14 +0200
> 
> > inetpeer currently uses an AVL tree protected by an rwlock.
> > 
> > It's possible to make most lookups use RCU
>  ...
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> Applied, nice work Eric.

Thanks David !

Re-reading patch I realize refcnt is expected to be 0 for unused entries
(obviously), so we should use a different marker for 'about to be freed'
ones.

Thanks

[PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: do not use zero refcnt for freed entries

Followup of commit aa1039e73cc2 (inetpeer: RCU conversion)

Unused inet_peer entries have a null refcnt.

Using atomic_inc_not_zero() in rcu lookups is not going to work for
them, and slow path is taken.

Fix this using -1 marker instead of 0 for deleted entries.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
index 58fbc7e..39a14ba 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -187,7 +187,12 @@ static struct inet_peer *lookup_rcu_bh(__be32 daddr)
 
 	while (u != peer_avl_empty) {
 		if (daddr == u->v4daddr) {
-			if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&u->refcnt)))
+			/* Before taking a reference, check if this entry was
+			 * deleted, unlink_from_pool() sets refcnt=-1 to make
+			 * distinction between an unused entry (refcnt=0) and
+			 * a freed one.
+			 */
+			if (unlikely(!atomic_add_unless(&u->refcnt, 1, -1)))
 				u = NULL;
 			return u;
 		}
@@ -322,8 +327,9 @@ static void unlink_from_pool(struct inet_peer *p)
 	 * in cleanup() function to prevent sudden disappearing.  If we can
 	 * atomically (because of lockless readers) take this last reference,
 	 * it's safe to remove the node and free it later.
+	 * We use refcnt=-1 to alert lockless readers this entry is deleted.
 	 */
-	if (atomic_cmpxchg(&p->refcnt, 1, 0) == 1) {
+	if (atomic_cmpxchg(&p->refcnt, 1, -1) == 1) {
 		struct inet_peer **stack[PEER_MAXDEPTH];
 		struct inet_peer ***stackptr, ***delp;
 		if (lookup(p->v4daddr, stack) != p)


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html