netdev - [PATCH] mpls: Add missing RCU-bh read side critical section locking in output path

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:05:27 +0300
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mpls: Add missing RCU-bh read side critical section locking
 in output path

From: David Barroso <dbarroso@...tly.com>

When locally originated IP traffic hits a route that says to push
MPLS labels, we'll get a call chain dst_output() -> lwtunnel_output()
-> mpls_output() -> neigh_xmit() -> ___neigh_lookup_noref() where the
last function in this chain accesses a RCU-bh protected struct
neigh_table pointer without us ever having declared an RCU-bh read
side critical section.

As in case of locally originated IP traffic we'll be running in process
context, with softirqs enabled, we can be preempted by a softirq at any
time, and RCU-bh considers the completion of a softirq as signaling
the end of any pending read-side critical sections, so if we do get a
softirq here, we can end up with an unexpected RCU grace period and
all the nastiness that that comes with.

This patch makes neigh_xmit() take rcu_read_{,un}lock_bh() around the
code that expects to be treated as an RCU-bh read side critical section.

Signed-off-by: David Barroso <dbarroso@...tly.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <lbuytenhek@...tly.com>

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index f18ae91..769cece 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2467,13 +2467,17 @@ int neigh_xmit(int index, struct net_device *dev,
 		tbl = neigh_tables[index];
 		if (!tbl)
 			goto out;
+		rcu_read_lock_bh();
 		neigh = __neigh_lookup_noref(tbl, addr, dev);
 		if (!neigh)
 			neigh = __neigh_create(tbl, addr, dev, false);
 		err = PTR_ERR(neigh);
-		if (IS_ERR(neigh))
+		if (IS_ERR(neigh)) {
+			rcu_read_unlock_bh();
 			goto out_kfree_skb;
+		}
 		err = neigh->output(neigh, skb);
+		rcu_read_unlock_bh();
 	}
 	else if (index == NEIGH_LINK_TABLE) {
 		err = dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(skb->protocol),