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Message-ID: <1322609078.2596.53.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:24:38 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Marc Aurele La France <tsi@...berta.ca>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: proper locking in skb_update_prio()

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011 à 00:11 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Some changes are needed now rcu_read_lock_bh() doesnt imply
> rcu_read_lock().
> 
> For example, recently added skb_update_prio() is buggy, since it uses
> rcu_dereference() while its caller, dev_queue_xmit() called
> rcu_read_lock_bh()
> 
> 

[PATCH net-next] net: proper locking in skb_update_prio()

We must use rcu_read_lock() in skb_update_prio(), since dev_queue_xmit()
uses rcu_read_lock_bh()

[   15.441620] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[   15.441622] -------------------------------
[   15.441624] net/core/dev.c:2476 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[   15.441625] 
[   15.441626] other info that might help us debug this:
[   15.441626] 
[   15.441628] 
[   15.441628] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[   15.441630] 1 lock held by arping/4373:
[   15.441632]  #0:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<c13049b0>] dev_queue_xmit+0x0/0xa90
[   15.441641] 
[   15.441642] stack backtrace:
[   15.441644] Pid: 4373, comm: arping Not tainted 3.2.0-rc2-12727-gd69d22a-dirty #1261
[   15.441646] Call Trace:
[   15.441651]  [<c13bae42>] ? printk+0x18/0x1e
[   15.441656]  [<c107f1aa>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xaa/0xc0
[   15.441658]  [<c130507a>] dev_queue_xmit+0x6ca/0xa90
[   15.441661]  [<c13049b0>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x810/0x810
[   15.441665]  [<c131cb84>] ? eth_header+0x24/0xb0
[   15.441668]  [<c139c4f8>] packet_sendmsg+0x978/0x9d0
[   15.441671]  [<c131cb60>] ? eth_rebuild_header+0x80/0x80
[   15.441675]  [<c12f3173>] ? sock_update_netprioidx+0xa3/0x110
[   15.441678]  [<c12ee93e>] sock_sendmsg+0xce/0x100
[   15.441682]  [<c10e354e>] ? might_fault+0x2e/0x80
[   15.441684]  [<c10e354e>] ? might_fault+0x2e/0x80
[   15.441687]  [<c10e3594>] ? might_fault+0x74/0x80
[   15.441691]  [<c11ce55f>] ? _copy_from_user+0x3f/0x60
[   15.441693]  [<c12f03e2>] sys_sendto+0xb2/0xe0
[   15.441696]  [<c108288b>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x8b/0x300
[   15.441699]  [<c10e354e>] ? might_fault+0x2e/0x80
[   15.441701]  [<c10e354e>] ? might_fault+0x2e/0x80
[   15.441704]  [<c12f0cd0>] sys_socketcall+0x1a0/0x280
[   15.441708]  [<c13bfc90>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 91a5991..903fd9d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2473,10 +2473,15 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP)
 static void skb_update_prio(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	struct netprio_map *map = rcu_dereference(skb->dev->priomap);
+	if (!skb->priority && skb->sk) {
+		struct netprio_map *map;
 
-	if ((!skb->priority) && (skb->sk) && map)
-		skb->priority = map->priomap[skb->sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx];
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		map = rcu_dereference(skb->dev->priomap);
+		if (map)
+			skb->priority = map->priomap[skb->sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx];
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+	}
 }
 #else
 #define skb_update_prio(skb)


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