Re: [Patch] ipvs: close race conditions on ip_vs_conn_tab listmodification

From: Wensong Zhang
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 12:12:38 EST



Hello Neil,

It's a good fix. Please continue on kernel 2.4 version of your patch.

Thanks,

Wensong


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Neil Horman wrote:

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:09:40PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:

Hello,

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Neil Horman wrote:

if (ct) {
IP_VS_DBG(4, "del conn template\n");
ip_vs_conn_expire_now(ct);
}

Don't forget to use cp->control instead of ct, ct is not needed
anymore.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>



Good catch. Sorry, should have seen that earlier. New patch attached with
corrections. When you're comfortable with this, I'll post the 2.4 version of
the patch.

Regards
Neil

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx>

ip_vs_conn.c | 24 ++++--------------------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)


--- linux-2.6.git/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c.orig 2005-06-23 13:11:00.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c 2005-06-24 13:33:03.000000000 -0400
@@ -548,7 +548,6 @@
{
if (del_timer(&cp->timer))
mod_timer(&cp->timer, jiffies);
- __ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
}


@@ -801,21 +800,12 @@
continue;
}

- /*
- * Drop the entry, and drop its ct if not referenced
- */
- atomic_inc(&cp->refcnt);
- ct_write_unlock(hash);
-
- if ((ct = cp->control))
- atomic_inc(&ct->refcnt);
IP_VS_DBG(4, "del connection\n");
ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
- if (ct) {
+ if (cp->control) {
IP_VS_DBG(4, "del conn template\n");
- ip_vs_conn_expire_now(ct);
+ ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp->control);
}
- ct_write_lock(hash);
}
ct_write_unlock(hash);
}
@@ -829,7 +819,6 @@
{
int idx;
struct ip_vs_conn *cp;
- struct ip_vs_conn *ct;

flush_again:
for (idx=0; idx<IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE; idx++) {
@@ -839,18 +828,13 @@
ct_write_lock_bh(idx);

list_for_each_entry(cp, &ip_vs_conn_tab[idx], c_list) {
- atomic_inc(&cp->refcnt);
- ct_write_unlock(idx);

- if ((ct = cp->control))
- atomic_inc(&ct->refcnt);
IP_VS_DBG(4, "del connection\n");
ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
- if (ct) {
+ if (cp->control) {
IP_VS_DBG(4, "del conn template\n");
- ip_vs_conn_expire_now(ct);
+ ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp->control);
}
- ct_write_lock(idx);
}
ct_write_unlock_bh(idx);
}
--
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