netdev - Re: [PATCH net] packet: fix use after free race in send path when dev is released

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Message-ID: <528C7319.5050309@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:30:17 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, noureddine@...stanetworks.com,
	greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: fix use after free race in send path when
 dev is released

On 11/20/2013 02:34 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:08:23 +0100
>
>> To avoid reverting 827d9780 entirely, we could make use of po->running
>> member that gets reset when we're calling __unregister_prot_hook() in
>> packet_notifier() when we receive NETDEV_DOWN or NETDEV_UNREGISTER
>> notification. Plus, we still need to hold ref to the netdev, so
>> that we can assure it won't be released while we're in send path.
>
> The avoidance of the atomic ref counting of the network device is the
> main performance gain we get from that commit.
>
> Now we'll be doing the refcount _and_ taking a spinlock, it'll be
> worse than beforehand.
>
> And this is doubly silly because we already have a reference
> when we install the device into po->prot_hook.dev
>
> I bet you can fix this by just deferring the NETDEV_UNREGISTER
> AF_PACKET notifier work to RCU.

Yep, will try if this approach works, in other words doing the earlier
exit via !po->running, plus deferring the dev_put() et al to RCU.
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