netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2012 23:23:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	kunx.jiang@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and
 ip_route_output_slow

From: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:03 +0800

> 1) Why does free_fib_info call call_rcu instead of releasing fi directly?
> I assume other cpu might be accessing it. nexthop_nh->nh_dev is in fi.
> If other cpu are accessing it, here resetting to NULL would cause other
> cpu panic.

Because fib trie lookups are done with RCU locking, therefore we must
use RCU freeing to release the object.

What I was trying to impart to you is that removing the NULL
assignment is wrong and that an alternative fix is warranted (hint:
consider moving something into the RCU release).
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