netdev - Re: [PATCH xfrm 1/2] xfrm: release all offloaded policy memory

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:10:16 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH xfrm 1/2] xfrm: release all offloaded policy memory

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 03:19:07PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> 
> Failure to add offloaded policy will cause to the following
> error once user will try to reload driver.
> 
> Unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth3 to become free. Usage count = 2
> 
> This was caused by xfrm_dev_policy_add() which increments reference
> to net_device. That reference was supposed to be decremented
> in xfrm_dev_policy_free(). However the latter wasn't called.
> 
>  unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth3 to become free. Usage count = 2
>  leaked reference.
>   xfrm_dev_policy_add+0xff/0x3d0
>   xfrm_policy_construct+0x352/0x420
>   xfrm_add_policy+0x179/0x320
>   xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x1d2/0x3d0
>   netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x210
>   xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x45/0x50
>   netlink_unicast+0x346/0x490
>   netlink_sendmsg+0x3b0/0x6c0
>   sock_sendmsg+0x73/0xc0
>   sock_write_iter+0x13b/0x1f0
>   vfs_write+0x528/0x5d0
>   ksys_write+0x120/0x150
>   do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> 
> Fixes: 919e43fad516 ("xfrm: add an interface to offload policy")
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>