netdev - [PATCH] net: fix a race in gro_cell

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Message-ID: <1355178723.27891.85.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:32:03 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix a race in gro_cell_poll()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Dmitry Kravkov reported packet drops for GRE packets since GRO support
was added.

There is a race in gro_cell_poll() because we call napi_complete()
without any synchronization with a concurrent gro_cells_receive()

Once bug was triggered, we queued packets but did not schedule NAPI
poll.

We can fix this issue using the spinlock protected the napi_skbs queue,
as we have to hold it to perform skb dequeue anyway.

As we open-code skb_dequeue(), we no longer need to mask IRQS, as both
producer and consumer run under BH context.

Bug added in commit c9e6bc644e (net: add gro_cells infrastructure)

Reported-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---

David: I could reproduce the bug Dmitry reported, and have
  verified this patch fixes the issue.

 include/net/gro_cells.h |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/gro_cells.h b/include/net/gro_cells.h
index 4fd8a4b..e5062c9 100644
--- a/include/net/gro_cells.h
+++ b/include/net/gro_cells.h
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ struct gro_cells {
 
 static inline void gro_cells_receive(struct gro_cells *gcells, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
 	struct gro_cell *cell = gcells->cells;
 	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
 
@@ -35,32 +34,37 @@ static inline void gro_cells_receive(struct gro_cells *gcells, struct sk_buff *s
 		return;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&cell->napi_skbs.lock, flags);
+	/* We run in BH context */
+	spin_lock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 
 	__skb_queue_tail(&cell->napi_skbs, skb);
 	if (skb_queue_len(&cell->napi_skbs) == 1)
 		napi_schedule(&cell->napi);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cell->napi_skbs.lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 }
 
+/* called unser BH context */
 static inline int gro_cell_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 {
 	struct gro_cell *cell = container_of(napi, struct gro_cell, napi);
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	int work_done = 0;
 
+	spin_lock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 	while (work_done < budget) {
-		skb = skb_dequeue(&cell->napi_skbs);
+		skb = __skb_dequeue(&cell->napi_skbs);
 		if (!skb)
 			break;
-
+		spin_unlock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 		napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);
 		work_done++;
+		spin_lock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 	}
 
 	if (work_done < budget)
 		napi_complete(napi);
+	spin_unlock(&cell->napi_skbs.lock);
 	return work_done;
 }
 


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