[PATCH 4.4 190/312] ipv4: do not abuse GFP_ATOMIC in inet_netconf_notify_devconf()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 09:16:10 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit fa17806cde76fb1087532f07e72aa757a30e0500 upstream.

inet_forward_change() runs with RTNL held.
We are allowed to sleep if required.

If we use __in_dev_get_rtnl() instead of __in_dev_get_rcu(),
we no longer have to use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in
inet_netconf_notify_devconf(), meaning we are less likely to miss
notifications under memory pressure, and wont touch precious memory
reserves either and risk dropping incoming packets.

inet_netconf_get_devconf() can also use GFP_KERNEL allocation.

Fixes: edc9e748934c ("rtnl/ipv4: use netconf msg to advertise forwarding status")
Fixes: 9e5511106f99 ("rtnl/ipv4: add support of RTM_GETNETCONF")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ void inet_netconf_notify_devconf(struct
struct sk_buff *skb;
int err = -ENOBUFS;

- skb = nlmsg_new(inet_netconf_msgsize_devconf(type), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ skb = nlmsg_new(inet_netconf_msgsize_devconf(type), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
goto errout;

@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ void inet_netconf_notify_devconf(struct
kfree_skb(skb);
goto errout;
}
- rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_NETCONF, NULL, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_NETCONF, NULL, GFP_KERNEL);
return;
errout:
if (err < 0)
@@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ static int inet_netconf_get_devconf(stru
}

err = -ENOBUFS;
- skb = nlmsg_new(inet_netconf_msgsize_devconf(-1), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ skb = nlmsg_new(inet_netconf_msgsize_devconf(-1), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
goto errout;

@@ -2007,16 +2007,16 @@ static void inet_forward_change(struct n

for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
struct in_device *in_dev;
+
if (on)
dev_disable_lro(dev);
- rcu_read_lock();
- in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev);
+
+ in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
if (in_dev) {
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, FORWARDING, on);
inet_netconf_notify_devconf(net, NETCONFA_FORWARDING,
dev->ifindex, &in_dev->cnf);
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
}
}