netdev - Re: [Patch net] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting

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Date:   Tue, 09 May 2017 16:50:05 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 16:35 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:

> All of them take RCU read lock, so, as I explained in the code comment,
> they all should be fine because of synchronize_net() on unregister path.
> Do you see anything otherwise?

They might take rcu lock, but compiler is still allowed to read
fi->fib_dev multiple times, and crashes might happen.

You will need to audit all code and fix it, using proper
rcu_dereference() or similar code ensuring compiler wont do stupid
things.

Like :

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index 1201409ba1dcb18ee028003b065410b87bf4a602..ab69517befbb5f300af785fbb20071a3d1086593 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -2666,11 +2666,13 @@ static int fib_route_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 
 		seq_setwidth(seq, 127);
 
-		if (fi)
+		if (fi) {
+			struct net_device *dev = rcu_dereference(fi->fib_dev);
+
 			seq_printf(seq,
 				   "%s\t%08X\t%08X\t%04X\t%d\t%u\t"
 				   "%d\t%08X\t%d\t%u\t%u",
-				   fi->fib_dev ? fi->fib_dev->name : "*",
+				   dev ? dev->name : "*",
 				   prefix,
 				   fi->fib_nh->nh_gw, flags, 0, 0,
 				   fi->fib_priority,
@@ -2679,13 +2681,13 @@ static int fib_route_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 				    fi->fib_advmss + 40 : 0),
 				   fi->fib_window,
 				   fi->fib_rtt >> 3);
-		else
+		} else {
 			seq_printf(seq,
 				   "*\t%08X\t%08X\t%04X\t%d\t%u\t"
 				   "%d\t%08X\t%d\t%u\t%u",
 				   prefix, 0, flags, 0, 0, 0,
 				   mask, 0, 0, 0);
-
+		}
 		seq_pad(seq, '\n');
 	}