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author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2007-01-04 00:38:10 +0100 |
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committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-01-04 00:38:10 +0100 |
commit | 83d285a27720a4927ad1ca8e12b035ddcf1b5e38 (patch) | |
tree | 538601c17ef3b96b3071da2e8b5ace05001ec097 /net/core | |
parent | ec7b3c30eea3e93a8ab1d1042fe99bd43d7e7133 (diff) |
NET_SCHED: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change
The move of qdisc destruction to a rcu callback broke locking in the
entire qdisc layer by invalidating previously valid assumptions about
the context in which changes to the qdisc tree occur.
The two assumptions were:
- since changes only happen in process context, read_lock doesn't need
bottem half protection. Now invalid since destruction of inner qdiscs,
classifiers, actions and estimators happens in the RCU callback unless
they're manually deleted, resulting in dead-locks when read_lock in
process context is interrupted by write_lock_bh in bottem half context.
- since changes only happen under the RTNL, no additional locking is
necessary for data not used during packet processing (f.e. u32_list).
Again, since destruction now happens in the RCU callback, this assumption
is not valid anymore, causing races while using this data, which can
result in corruption or use-after-free.
Instead of "fixing" this by disabling bottem halfs everywhere and adding
new locks/refcounting, this patch makes these assumptions valid again by
moving destruction back to process context. Since only the dev->qdisc
pointer is protected by RCU, but ->enqueue and the qdisc tree are still
protected by dev->qdisc_lock, destruction of the tree can be performed
immediately and only the final free needs to happen in the rcu callback
to make sure dev_queue_xmit doesn't access already freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 7405b3ffd338..caa8cbb0e0ff 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1297,14 +1297,16 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb) if (q->enqueue) { /* Grab device queue */ spin_lock(&dev->queue_lock); + q = dev->qdisc; + if (q->enqueue) { + rc = q->enqueue(skb, q); + qdisc_run(dev); + spin_unlock(&dev->queue_lock); - rc = q->enqueue(skb, q); - - qdisc_run(dev); - + rc = rc == NET_XMIT_BYPASS ? NET_XMIT_SUCCESS : rc; + goto out; + } spin_unlock(&dev->queue_lock); - rc = rc == NET_XMIT_BYPASS ? NET_XMIT_SUCCESS : rc; - goto out; } /* The device has no queue. Common case for software devices: |