netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] once: Fix panic when module unload

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Message-ID: <20210806064328.1b54a7f0@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Aug 2021 06:43:28 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Minmin chen <chenmingmin@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] once: Fix panic when module unload

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:21:24 +0800 Kefeng Wang wrote:
> DO_ONCE
> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(___once_key);
> __do_once_done
>   once_disable_jump(once_key);
>     INIT_WORK(&w->work, once_deferred);
>     struct once_work *w;
>     w->key = key;
>     schedule_work(&w->work);                     module unload
>                                                    //*the key is
> destroy*
> process_one_work
>   once_deferred
>     BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled(work->key));
>        static_key_count((struct static_key *)x)    //*access key, crash*
> 
> When module uses DO_ONCE mechanism, it could crash due to the above
> concurrency problem, we could reproduce it with link[1].
> 
> Fix it by add/put module refcount in the once work process.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/eaa6c371-465e-57eb-6be9-f4b16b9d7cbf@huawei.com/

Seems reasonable. Greg does it look good to you?

I think we can take it thru networking since nobody cared to pick up v1.