netdev - Re: net: suspicious RCU usage in nf

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJb55jCppc9J=vL9n=7ofr1LSz3d+nKNo4W-BJeoH0m3A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:48:33 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: net: suspicious RCU usage in nf_hook

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:

> Not sure if it is better. The difference is caught up in net_enable_timestamp(),
> which is called setsockopt() path and sk_clone() path, so we could be
> in netstamp_needed state for a long time too until user-space exercises
> these paths.
>
> I am feeling we probably need to get rid of netstamp_needed_deferred,
> and simply defer the whole static_key_slow_dec(), like the attached patch
> (compile only).
>
> What do you think?

I think we need to keep the atomic.

If two cpus call net_disable_timestamp() roughly at the same time, the
work will be scheduled once.