netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: action_ife: take reference to meta module

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Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 10:36:19 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: action_ife: take reference to meta module

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 10:12 AM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon 03 Sep 2018 at 17:03, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:10 AM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Recent refactoring of add_metainfo() caused use_all_metadata() to add
> >> metainfo to ife action metalist without taking reference to module. This
> >> causes warning in module_put called from ife action cleanup function.
> >>
> >> Implement add_metainfo_and_get_ops() function that returns with reference
> >> to module taken if metainfo was added successfully, and call it from
> >> use_all_metadata(), instead of calling __add_metainfo() directly.
> >
> > Good catch!
> >
> > I thought every entry in ifeoplist must hold a refcnt to its module, looks
> > like I was wrong.
> >
> >
> >>         read_lock(&ife_mod_lock);
> >>         list_for_each_entry(o, &ifeoplist, list) {
> >> -               rc = __add_metainfo(o, ife, o->metaid, NULL, 0, true, exists);
> >> +               rc = add_metainfo_and_get_ops(o, ife, o->metaid, NULL, 0, true,
> >> +                                             exists);
> >>                 if (rc == 0)
> >>                         installed += 1;
> >
> > I am afraid you have to rollback on failure inside this loop, that is,
> > releasing all previous module refcnt properly on error.
>
> Do I? This function looks like it is explicitly designed to succeed if
> at least one metainfo was successfully added. And this is how it was
> originally implemented before deadlock fix refactoring.

Hmm, well, it is taken care by tcf_idr_release() via _tcf_ife_cleanup()...

So, your patch should be fine.