netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: frags: fix a race between inet_evict_bucket and inet_frag

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:21:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nikolay@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	chutzpah@...too.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: frags: fix a race between inet_evict_bucket
 and inet_frag_kill

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:30:34 +0100

> When the evictor is running it adds some chosen frags to a local list to
> be evicted once the chain lock has been released but at the same time
> the *frag_queue can be running for some of the same queues and it
> may call inet_frag_kill which will wait on the chain lock and
> will then delete the queue from the wrong list since it was added in the
> eviction one. The fix is simple - check if the queue has the evict flag
> set under the chain lock before deleting it, this is safe because the
> evict flag is set only under that lock and having the flag set also means
> that the queue has been detached from the chain list, so no need to delete
> it again.
> An important note to make is that we're safe w.r.t refcnt because
> inet_frag_kill and inet_evict_bucket will sync on the del_timer operation
> where only one of the two can succeed (or if the timer is executing -
> none of them), the cases are:
> 1. inet_frag_kill succeeds in del_timer
>  - then the timer ref is removed, but inet_evict_bucket will not add
>    this queue to its expire list but will restart eviction in that chain
> 2. inet_evict_bucket succeeds in del_timer
>  - then the timer ref is kept until the evictor "expires" the queue, but
>    inet_frag_kill will remove the initial ref and will set
>    INET_FRAG_COMPLETE which will make the frag_expire fn just to remove
>    its ref.
> In the end all of the queue users will do an inet_frag_put and the one
> that reaches 0 will free it. The refcount balance should be okay.
> 
> CC: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> CC: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@...too.org>
> 
> Fixes: b13d3cbfb8e8 ("inet: frag: move eviction of queues to work queue")
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@...too.org>
> Tested-by: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@...too.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
> ---
> A few more eyes to confirm all of this would be much appreciated.

I've applied this and tentatively scheduled it for -stable, thanks.
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