netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v2] xsk: fix race at socket teardown

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Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:21:39 +0100
From:   Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>
To:     Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>
Cc:     "Karlsson, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Fijalkowski, Maciej" <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Elza Mathew <elza.mathew@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2] xsk: fix race at socket teardown

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 10:46, Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>
>
> Fix a race in the xsk socket teardown code that can lead to a null
> pointer dereference splat. The current xsk unbind code in
> xsk_unbind_dev() starts by setting xs->state to XSK_UNBOUND, sets
> xs->dev to NULL and then waits for any NAPI processing to terminate
> using synchronize_net(). After that, the release code starts to tear
> down the socket state and free allocated memory.
>
[...]
>
> v1 -> v2:
> * Naming xsk_zc_xmit() -> xsk_wakeup() [Maciej]
>

Magnus,

You forgot to include my ACK! So, again:

Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>


Cheers,
Björn