Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info andip_route_output_slow

[Yanmin Zhang]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 07:02 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:54 +0800, Yanmin Zhang wrote:
> 
> > > fi->fib_dev (aka fib_nh[0].nh_dev) need full RCU protection.
> > The new patch posted at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/22/558 does move the
> > resetting to RCU protection.
> 
> Its not enough.
> 
> We must take care that all users are in a RCU protected region.
> 
> They might be already, but a full check is needed.
> 
> For example 
> 
> net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:2563:    fi->fib_dev ? fi->fib_dev->name : "*"
> 
> looks to be safe (because already in a rcu_read_lock())
> 
> But its not.
> 
> Right thing would be to do :
> 
> struct net_device *ndev = rcu_dereference(fi->fib_dev)
> 
> 	...
> 	ndev ? ndev->name : "*"
Thanks for the pointer.

Besides fi->fib_dev here, we need check fi->fib_hash, fi->fib_lhash,
and nexthop_nh->nh_hash.

Yanmin


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