netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/8] rhashtable: fix race in nested_table

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Date:   Sun, 06 May 2018 07:48:20 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] rhashtable: fix race in nested_table_alloc()

On Sat, May 05 2018, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:54:14PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> If two threads run nested_table_alloc() at the same time
>> they could both allocate a new table.
>> Best case is that one of them will never be freed, leaking memory.
>> Worst case is hat entry get stored there before it leaks,
>> and the are lost from the table.
>> 
>> So use cmpxchg to detect the race and free the unused table.
>> 
>> Fixes: da20420f83ea ("rhashtable: Add nested tables")
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.11+
>> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
>
> What about the spinlock that's meant to be held around this
> operation?

The spinlock protects 2 or more buckets.  The nested table contains at
least 512 buckets, maybe more.
It is quite possible for two insertions into 2 different buckets to both
get their spinlock and both try to instantiate the same nested table.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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