netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: xfrm: fix a race condition during allocing spi

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Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:48:07 +1100
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     "zhuoliang.zhang" <zhuoliang.zhang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, wsd_upstream@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: xfrm: fix a race condition during allocing spi

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 01:53:15PM +0800, zhuoliang.zhang wrote:
> 
> there are 2 related hash lists : net->xfrm.state_bydst and
> net->xfrm.state_byspi:
> 
> 1. a new state x is alloced in xfrm_state_alloc() and added into the
> bydst hlist in  __find_acq_core() on the LHS;
> 2. on the RHS, state_hash_work thread travels the old bydst and tranfers
> every xfrm_state (include x) to the new bydst hlist and new byspi hlist;
> 3. user thread on the LHS gets the lock and adds x to the new byspi
> hlist again.

Good catch.  Please add a Fixes header.  I think this was introduced
with the dynamic resizing in f034b5d4efdfe0fb9e2a1ce1d95fa7914f24de49.

Thanks,
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