netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix double free of percpu stats

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:26:14 +0200
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@...ras.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>, Lior Nahmanson <liorna@...dia.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
	lvc-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix double free of percpu stats

2023-06-13, 20:01:50 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:22:20 +0300 Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> > Inside macsec_add_dev() we free percpu macsec->secy.tx_sc.stats and
> > macsec->stats on some of the memory allocation failure paths. However, the
> > net_device is already registered to that moment: in macsec_newlink(), just
> > before calling macsec_add_dev(). This means that during unregister process
> > its priv_destructor - macsec_free_netdev() - will be called and will free
> > the stats again.
> > 
> > Remove freeing percpu stats inside macsec_add_dev() because
> > macsec_free_netdev() will correctly free the already allocated ones. The
> > pointers to unallocated stats stay NULL, and free_percpu() treats that
> > correctly.
> 
> What prevents the device from being opened and used before
> macsec_add_dev() has finished? I think we need a fix which 
> would move this code before register_netdev(), instead :(

Can the device be opened in parallel? We're under rtnl here.

If we want to move that code, then we'll also have to move the
eth_hw_addr_inherit call that's currently in macsec's ndo_init: in
case the user didn't give an SCI, we have to make it up based on the
device's mac address (dev_to_sci(dev, ...)), whether it's set by the
user or inherited. I can't remember if I had a good reason to put the
inherit in ndo_init.

-- 
Sabrina