netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ip6_tunnel: sit: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo

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Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:01:00 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ip6_tunnel: sit: proper dev_{hold|put} in
 ndo_[un]init methods

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:00 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 8:45 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > Same reasons than for the previous commits :
> > 6289a98f0817 ("sit: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo_[un]init methods")
> > 40cb881b5aaa ("ip6_vti: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo_[un]init methods")
> > 7f700334be9a ("ip6_gre: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo_[un]init methods")
> >
> > After adopting CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT=n option, syzbot was able to trigger
> > a warning [1]
> >
> > Issue here is that:
> >
> > - all dev_put() should be paired with a corresponding prior dev_hold().
> >
> > - A driver doing a dev_put() in its ndo_uninit() MUST also
> >   do a dev_hold() in its ndo_init(), only when ndo_init()
> >   is returning 0.
> >
> > Otherwise, register_netdevice() would call ndo_uninit()
> > in its error path and release a refcount too soon.
> >
> >
>
> Note to David & Jakub
>
> Can you merge this patch so that I can send my global fix for fallback
> tunnels, with a correct Fixes: tag for this patch ?
>
> Thanks !

Forgot to attach what the global fix would look like :

View attachment "0001-ipv6-remove-extra-dev_hold-for-fallback-tunnels.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (3126 bytes)