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Date:   Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:30:11 +0200
From:   Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Marek Majkowski <marek@...udflare.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...udflare.com>
Subject: Re: NEIGH: BUG, double timer add, state is 8

On Jul 05, David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/4/19 3:59 PM, Marek Majkowski wrote:
> > I found a way to hit an obscure BUG in the
> > net/core/neighbour.c:neigh_add_timer(), by piping two carefully
> > crafted messages into AF_NETLINK socket.
> > 
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.2-rc7/net/core/neighbour.c#L259
> > 
> >     if (unlikely(mod_timer(&n->timer, when))) {
> >         printk("NEIGH: BUG, double timer add, state is %x\n", n->nud_state);
> >         dump_stack();
> >      }
> > 
> > The repro is here:
> > https://gist.github.com/majek/d70297b9d72bc2e2b82145e122722a0c
> > 
> > wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/majek/d70297b9d72bc2e2b82145e122722a0c/raw/9e140bcedecc28d722022f1da142a379a9b7a7b0/double_timer_add_bug.c
> 
> Thanks for the report - and the reproducer. I am on PTO through Monday;
> I will take a look next week if no one else does.

Hi David and Marek,

looking at the reproducer it seems to me the issue is due to the use of
'NTF_USE' from userspace.
Should we unschedule the neigh timer if we are in IN_TIMER receiving this
flag from userspace? (taking appropriate locking)

Regards,
Lorenzo

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