netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bridge: switchdev: Fix memory leaks when changing VLAN protocol

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:30:08 +0100
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
CC:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, petrm@...dia.com, vladbu@...dia.com,
        roopa@...dia.com, mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bridge: switchdev: Fix memory leaks when changing VLAN protocol

On 14 November 2022 09:45:09 CET, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com> wrote:
>The bridge driver can offload VLANs to the underlying hardware either
>via switchdev or the 8021q driver. When the former is used, the VLAN is
>marked in the bridge driver with the 'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV'
>private flag.
>
>To avoid the memory leaks mentioned in the cited commit, the bridge
>driver will try to delete a VLAN via the 8021q driver if the VLAN is not
>marked with the previously mentioned flag.
>
>When the VLAN protocol of the bridge changes, switchdev drivers are
>notified via the 'SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_VLAN_PROTOCOL' attribute, but
>the 8021q driver is also called to add the existing VLANs with the new
>protocol and delete them with the old protocol.
>
>In case the VLANs were offloaded via switchdev, the above behavior is
>both redundant and buggy. Redundant because the VLANs are already
>programmed in hardware and drivers that support VLAN protocol change
>(currently only mlx5) change the protocol upon the switchdev attribute
>notification. Buggy because the 8021q driver is called despite these
>VLANs being marked with 'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV'. This leads to
>memory leaks [1] when the VLANs are deleted.
>
>Fix by not calling the 8021q driver for VLANs that were already
>programmed via switchdev.
>
>[1]
>unreferenced object 0xffff8881f6771200 (size 256):
>  comm "ip", pid 446855, jiffies 4298238841 (age 55.240s)
>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>    00 00 7f 0e 83 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>  backtrace:
>    [<00000000012819ac>] vlan_vid_add+0x437/0x750
>    [<00000000f2281fad>] __br_vlan_set_proto+0x289/0x920
>    [<000000000632b56f>] br_changelink+0x3d6/0x13f0
>    [<0000000089d25f04>] __rtnl_newlink+0x8ae/0x14c0
>    [<00000000f6276baf>] rtnl_newlink+0x5f/0x90
>    [<00000000746dc902>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x336/0xa00
>    [<000000001c2241c0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x11d/0x340
>    [<0000000010588814>] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710
>    [<00000000e1a4cd5c>] netlink_sendmsg+0x788/0xc40
>    [<00000000e8992d4e>] sock_sendmsg+0xb0/0xe0
>    [<00000000621b8f91>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x4ff/0x6d0
>    [<000000000ea26996>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x12e/0x1b0
>    [<00000000684f7e25>] __sys_sendmsg+0xab/0x130
>    [<000000004538b104>] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
>    [<0000000091ed9678>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
>
>Fixes: 279737939a81 ("net: bridge: Fix VLANs memory leak")
>Reported-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>
>Tested-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>
>Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
>---
> net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>

>diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
>index 6e53dc991409..9ffd40b8270c 100644
>--- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
>+++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
>@@ -959,6 +959,8 @@ int __br_vlan_set_proto(struct net_bridge *br, __be16 proto,
> 	list_for_each_entry(p, &br->port_list, list) {
> 		vg = nbp_vlan_group(p);
> 		list_for_each_entry(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist) {
>+			if (vlan->priv_flags & BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV)
>+				continue;
> 			err = vlan_vid_add(p->dev, proto, vlan->vid);
> 			if (err)
> 				goto err_filt;
>@@ -973,8 +975,11 @@ int __br_vlan_set_proto(struct net_bridge *br, __be16 proto,
> 	/* Delete VLANs for the old proto from the device filter. */
> 	list_for_each_entry(p, &br->port_list, list) {
> 		vg = nbp_vlan_group(p);
>-		list_for_each_entry(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist)
>+		list_for_each_entry(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist) {
>+			if (vlan->priv_flags & BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV)
>+				continue;
> 			vlan_vid_del(p->dev, oldproto, vlan->vid);
>+		}
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
>@@ -983,13 +988,19 @@ int __br_vlan_set_proto(struct net_bridge *br, __be16 proto,
> 	attr.u.vlan_protocol = ntohs(oldproto);
> 	switchdev_port_attr_set(br->dev, &attr, NULL);
> 
>-	list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist)
>+	list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist) {
>+		if (vlan->priv_flags & BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV)
>+			continue;
> 		vlan_vid_del(p->dev, proto, vlan->vid);
>+	}
> 
> 	list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse(p, &br->port_list, list) {
> 		vg = nbp_vlan_group(p);
>-		list_for_each_entry(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist)
>+		list_for_each_entry(vlan, &vg->vlan_list, vlist) {
>+			if (vlan->priv_flags & BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV)
>+				continue;
> 			vlan_vid_del(p->dev, proto, vlan->vid);
>+		}
> 	}
> 
> 	return err;