netdev - [PATCH 01/15] ipvs: fix race between ip_vs_conn_new() and ip_vs_del

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Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:38:36 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/15] ipvs: fix race between ip_vs_conn_new() and ip_vs_del_dest()

From: Tan Hu <tan.hu@....com.cn>

We came across infinite loop in ipvs when using ipvs in docker
env.

When ipvs receives new packets and cannot find an ipvs connection,
it will create a new connection, then if the dest is unavailable
(i.e. IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE), the packet will be dropped sliently.

But if the dropped packet is the first packet of this connection,
the connection control timer never has a chance to start and the
ipvs connection cannot be released. This will lead to memory leak, or
infinite loop in cleanup_net() when net namespace is released like
this:

    ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f31a [ip_vs]
    __ip_vs_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f60a [ip_vs]
    ops_exit_list at ffffffff81567a49
    cleanup_net at ffffffff81568b40
    process_one_work at ffffffff810a851b
    worker_thread at ffffffff810a9356
    kthread at ffffffff810b0b6f
    ret_from_fork at ffffffff81697a18

race condition:
    CPU1                           CPU2
    ip_vs_in()
      ip_vs_conn_new()
                                   ip_vs_del_dest()
                                     __ip_vs_unlink_dest()
                                       ~IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
      cp->dest && !IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
      __ip_vs_conn_put
    ...
    cleanup_net  ---> infinite looping

Fix this by checking whether the timer already started.

Signed-off-by: Tan Hu <tan.hu@....com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@....com.cn>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index 0679dd101e72..7ca926a03b81 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1972,13 +1972,20 @@ ip_vs_in(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb, int
 	if (cp->dest && !(cp->dest->flags & IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE)) {
 		/* the destination server is not available */
 
-		if (sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) {
+		__u32 flags = cp->flags;
+
+		/* when timer already started, silently drop the packet.*/
+		if (timer_pending(&cp->timer))
+			__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+		else
+			ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+
+		if (sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs) &&
+		    !(flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_ONE_PACKET)) {
 			/* try to expire the connection immediately */
 			ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
 		}
-		/* don't restart its timer, and silently
-		   drop the packet. */
-		__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+
 		return NF_DROP;
 	}
 
-- 
2.11.0