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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2015-10-01 11:37:42 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-05 06:30:33 -0700
commit6bd00b850635abb0044e06101761533c8beba79c (patch)
tree65141acd5f97da77b3b997646ec270b4037ac1bb /net/sched
parentfec31ffffa6e05845ab13908d0ac0d5a10816836 (diff)
downloadlinux-6bd00b850635abb0044e06101761533c8beba79c.tar.bz2
act_mirred: fix a race condition on mirred_list
After commit 1ce87720d456 ("net: sched: make cls_u32 lockless") we began to release tc actions in a RCU callback. However, mirred action relies on RTNL lock to protect the global mirred_list, therefore we could have a race condition between RCU callback and netdevice event, which caused a list corruption as reported by Vinson. Instead of relying on RTNL lock, introduce a spinlock to protect this list. Note, in non-bind case, it is still called with RTNL lock, therefore should disable BH too. Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@twopensource.com> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched')
-rw-r--r--net/sched/act_mirred.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/act_mirred.c b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
index 2d1be4a760fd..3e7c51a8ca38 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_mirred.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_mirred.c
@@ -31,13 +31,17 @@
#define MIRRED_TAB_MASK 7
static LIST_HEAD(mirred_list);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mirred_list_lock);
static void tcf_mirred_release(struct tc_action *a, int bind)
{
struct tcf_mirred *m = to_mirred(a);
struct net_device *dev = rcu_dereference_protected(m->tcfm_dev, 1);
+ /* We could be called either in a RCU callback or with RTNL lock held. */
+ spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
list_del(&m->tcfm_list);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
if (dev)
dev_put(dev);
}
@@ -123,7 +127,9 @@ static int tcf_mirred_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
}
if (ret == ACT_P_CREATED) {
+ spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
list_add(&m->tcfm_list, &mirred_list);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
tcf_hash_insert(a);
}
@@ -221,7 +227,8 @@ static int mirred_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
struct tcf_mirred *m;
ASSERT_RTNL();
- if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER)
+ if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER) {
+ spin_lock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(m, &mirred_list, tcfm_list) {
if (rcu_access_pointer(m->tcfm_dev) == dev) {
dev_put(dev);
@@ -231,6 +238,8 @@ static int mirred_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
RCU_INIT_POINTER(m->tcfm_dev, NULL);
}
}
+ spin_unlock_bh(&mirred_list_lock);
+ }
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}