netdev - Re: [Patch net 00/16] net_sched: fix races with RCU callbacks

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Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:55:45 -0400
From:   Lucas Bates <lucasb@...atatu.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net 00/16] net_sched: fix races with RCU callbacks

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> This almost rules out the guilty of this patchset.
>>
>> I will provide a patch for you to test, since I can't reproduce it here.
>>
>
> Lucas, please test the attached patch, it applies to latest -net.
>
> Note, it is a combination of 3 patches which together close the
> use-after-free you reported here, I hope.
>
> Please let me know if this works. My basic tests run well without
> any stack traces or memory leaks.

The results look good to me.

I compiled with the patch and ran the test again in a loop. I set it
to run 50 times in a row and didn't trigger the bug once (previous
record was 4 times).