Re: [PATCHv2 net 1/3] bonding: move mutex lock to a work queue for XFRM GC tasks

From: Hangbin Liu
Date: Wed Feb 26 2025 - 04:49:06 EST


Hi Cosmin,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 02:00:05PM +0000, Cosmin Ratiu wrote:
> This got me to stare at the code again. What if we move the removal of
> the xs from bond->ipsec from bond_ipsec_del_sa to bond_ipsec_free_sa?
> bond_ipsec_free_sa, unlike bond_ipsec_del_sa, is not called with x-
> >lock held. It is called from the xfrm gc task or directly via
> xfrm_state_put_sync and therefore wouldn't suffer from the locking
> issue.
>
> The tricky part is to make sure that inactive bond->ipsec entries
> (after bond_ipsec_del_sa calls) do not cause issues if there's a
> migration (bond_ipsec_del_sa_all is called) happening before
> bond_ipsec_free_sa. Perhaps filtering by x->km.state != XFRM_STATE_DEAD
> in bond_ipsec_del_sa_all.
>
> What do you think about this idea?

Thanks a lot for the comments. I also skipped the DEAD xs in add_sa_all.
What about the patch like:

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index e45bba240cbc..0e4db43a833a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -537,6 +537,12 @@ static void bond_ipsec_add_sa_all(struct bonding *bond)
}

list_for_each_entry(ipsec, &bond->ipsec_list, list) {
+ /* No need to handle DEAD XFRM, as it has already been
+ * deleted and will be freed later.
+ */
+ if (ipsec->xs->km.state == XFRM_STATE_DEAD)
+ continue;
+
/* If new state is added before ipsec_lock acquired */
if (ipsec->xs->xso.real_dev == real_dev)
continue;
@@ -592,15 +598,6 @@ static void bond_ipsec_del_sa(struct xfrm_state *xs)
real_dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_state_delete(xs);
out:
netdev_put(real_dev, &tracker);
- mutex_lock(&bond->ipsec_lock);
- list_for_each_entry(ipsec, &bond->ipsec_list, list) {
- if (ipsec->xs == xs) {
- list_del(&ipsec->list);
- kfree(ipsec);
- break;
- }
- }
- mutex_unlock(&bond->ipsec_lock);
}

static void bond_ipsec_del_sa_all(struct bonding *bond)
@@ -617,6 +614,12 @@ static void bond_ipsec_del_sa_all(struct bonding *bond)

mutex_lock(&bond->ipsec_lock);
list_for_each_entry(ipsec, &bond->ipsec_list, list) {
+ /* No need to handle DEAD XFRM, as it has already been
+ * deleted and will be freed later.
+ */
+ if (ipsec->xs->km.state == XFRM_STATE_DEAD)
+ continue;
+
if (!ipsec->xs->xso.real_dev)
continue;

@@ -666,6 +669,16 @@ static void bond_ipsec_free_sa(struct xfrm_state *xs)
real_dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_state_free(xs);
out:
netdev_put(real_dev, &tracker);
+
+ mutex_lock(&bond->ipsec_lock);
+ list_for_each_entry(ipsec, &bond->ipsec_list, list) {
+ if (ipsec->xs == xs) {
+ list_del(&ipsec->list);
+ kfree(ipsec);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&bond->ipsec_lock);
}

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