Re: [PATCH 1/2] NFSD: notifiers registration cleanup

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 15:33 +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> By design notifier can be registered once only,
> however nfsd registers the same inetaddr notifiers per net-namespace.
> When this happen it corrupts list of notifiers,
> as result some notifiers can be not called on proper event,
> traverse on list can be cycled forever,
> and second unregister can access already freed memory.
> 
> fixes: 36684996 ("nfsd: Register callbacks on the inetaddr_chain and inet6addr_chain")
> > Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âfs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> Â1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> index 45007ac..7f8914f 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> @@ -366,14 +366,20 @@ static struct notifier_block nfsd_inet6addr_notifier = {
> Â};
> Â#endif
> Â
> +static atomic_t nfsd_notifier_refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +
> Âstatic void nfsd_last_thread(struct svc_serv *serv, struct net *net)
> Â{
> > Â	struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfsd_net_id);
> Â
> > -	unregister_inetaddr_notifier(&nfsd_inetaddr_notifier);
> > +	/* check if the notifier still has clients */
> > +	if (atomic_dec_return(&nfsd_notifier_refcount) == 0) {
> > +		unregister_inetaddr_notifier(&nfsd_inetaddr_notifier);
> Â#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
> > -	unregister_inet6addr_notifier(&nfsd_inet6addr_notifier);
> > +		unregister_inet6addr_notifier(&nfsd_inet6addr_notifier);
> Â#endif
> > +	}
> +
> > Â	/*
> > Â	Â* write_ports can create the server without actually starting
> > Â	Â* any threads--if we get shut down before any threads are
> @@ -488,10 +494,13 @@ int nfsd_create_serv(struct net *net)
> > Â	}
> Â
> > Â	set_max_drc();
> > -	register_inetaddr_notifier(&nfsd_inetaddr_notifier);
> > +	/* check if the notifier is already set */
> > +	if (atomic_inc_return(&nfsd_notifier_refcount) == 1) {
> > +		register_inetaddr_notifier(&nfsd_inetaddr_notifier);
> Â#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
> > -	register_inet6addr_notifier(&nfsd_inet6addr_notifier);
> > +		register_inet6addr_notifier(&nfsd_inet6addr_notifier);
> Â#endif
> > +	}
> > > Â	do_gettimeofday(&nn->nfssvc_boot);		/* record boot time */
> > Â	return 0;
> Â}

Good catch. I'm not very fond of the refcounting this here but it
should
serve the purpose and I don't have anything better to suggest. FWIW, I
think the nfsd_mutex is held during all of these operations so we
probably don't need atomics for the refcount.

--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>