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net: fix IP early demux races

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David Wilder reported crashes caused by dst reuse.

<quote David>
  I am seeing a crash on a distro V4.2.3 kernel caused by a double
  release of a dst_entry.  In ipv4_dst_destroy() the call to
  list_empty() finds a poisoned next pointer, indicating the dst_entry
  has already been removed from the list and freed. The crash occurs
  18 to 24 hours into a run of a network stress exerciser.
</quote>

Thanks to his detailed report and analysis, we were able to understand
the core issue.

IP early demux can associate a dst to skb, after a lookup in TCP/UDP
sockets.

When socket cache is not properly set, we want to store into
sk->sk_dst_cache the dst for future IP early demux lookups,
by acquiring a stable refcount on the dst.

Problem is this acquisition is simply using an atomic_inc(),
which works well, unless the dst was queued for destruction from
dst_release() noticing dst refcount went to zero, if DST_NOCACHE
was set on dst.

We need to make sure current refcount is not zero before incrementing
it, or risk double free as David reported.

This patch, being a stable candidate, adds two new helpers, and use
them only from IP early demux problematic paths.

It might be possible to merge in net-next skb_dst_force() and
skb_dst_force_safe(), but I prefer having the smallest patch for stable
kernels : Maybe some skb_dst_force() callers do not expect skb->dst
can suddenly be cleared.

Can probably be backported back to linux-3.6 kernels

Reported-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet
2015-12-14 14:08:53 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2274d3753f
commit 5037e9ef94
4 changed files with 37 additions and 6 deletions
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include/net/dst.h
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@@ -322,6 +322,39 @@ static inline void skb_dst_force(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
}
/**
* dst_hold_safe - Take a reference on a dst if possible
* @dst: pointer to dst entry
*
* This helper returns false if it could not safely
* take a reference on a dst.
*/
static inline bool dst_hold_safe(struct dst_entry *dst)
{
if (dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE)
return atomic_inc_not_zero(&dst->__refcnt);
dst_hold(dst);
return true;
}
/**
* skb_dst_force_safe - makes sure skb dst is refcounted
* @skb: buffer
*
* If dst is not yet refcounted and not destroyed, grab a ref on it.
*/
static inline void skb_dst_force_safe(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (skb_dst_is_noref(skb)) {
struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
if (!dst_hold_safe(dst))
dst = NULL;
skb->_skb_refdst = (unsigned long)dst;
}
}
/**
* __skb_tunnel_rx - prepare skb for rx reinsert