[PATCH] xfrm : lock input tasklet skb queue

From: Tom Rix
Date: Sun Oct 20 2019 - 11:46:39 EST


On PREEMPT_RT_FULL while running netperf, a corruption
of the skb queue causes an oops.

This appears to be caused by a race condition here
__skb_queue_tail(&trans->queue, skb);
tasklet_schedule(&trans->tasklet);
Where the queue is changed before the tasklet is locked by
tasklet_schedule.

The fix is to use the skb queue lock.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
index 9b599ed66d97..226dead86828 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
@@ -758,12 +758,16 @@ static void xfrm_trans_reinject(unsigned long data)
struct xfrm_trans_tasklet *trans = (void *)data;
struct sk_buff_head queue;
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ unsigned long flags;

__skb_queue_head_init(&queue);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&trans->queue.lock, flags);
skb_queue_splice_init(&trans->queue, &queue);

while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&queue)))
XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->finish(dev_net(skb->dev), NULL, skb);
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&trans->queue.lock, flags);
}

int xfrm_trans_queue(struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -771,15 +775,20 @@ int xfrm_trans_queue(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct sk_buff *))
{
struct xfrm_trans_tasklet *trans;
+ unsigned long flags;

trans = this_cpu_ptr(&xfrm_trans_tasklet);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&trans->queue.lock, flags);

- if (skb_queue_len(&trans->queue) >= netdev_max_backlog)
+ if (skb_queue_len(&trans->queue) >= netdev_max_backlog) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&trans->queue.lock, flags);
return -ENOBUFS;
+ }

XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->finish = finish;
__skb_queue_tail(&trans->queue, skb);
tasklet_schedule(&trans->tasklet);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&trans->queue.lock, flags);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm_trans_queue);
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