Michal Ostrowski a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Michal Ostrowski a écrit : >>> Here's a bigger patch that just gets rid of flush_lock altogether. >>> >>> We were seeing oopses due to net namespaces going away while we were using >>> them, which turns out is simply due to the fact that pppoew wasn't claiming ref >>> counts properly. >>> >>> Fixing this requires that adding and removing entries to the per-net hash-table >>> requires incrementing and decrementing the ref count. This also allows us to >>> get rid of the flush_lock since we can now depend on the existence of >>> "pn->hash_lock". >>> >>> We also have to be careful when flushing devices that removal of a hash table >>> entry may bring the net namespace refcount to 0. >>> >> Your patch is mangled (tabulation -> white spaces), > > Patch mangling was due to mailer interactions, I'll attach a clean > version here, no more inlining. > >> and I dont believe namespace refcount can reach 0 inside pppoe_flush_dev(), >> it would be a bug from core network code. >> > > From the original oops I was able to deduce that the namespace somehow > managed to get destroyed during the interval where we dropped locks. > If that's not due to the release_sock() call in pppoe_flush_dev() > triggering a cleanup then I'd have to assume that that it's due to a > secondary actor closing the socket in parallel, but that in turn would > point to issues with the flush_lock. Having said that the thrust of > this patch remains valid; it just means I don't need to inc the ref > count in pppoe_flush_dev(). > > Do you agree? > Not really :) I dont believe you should care of namespace, and/or mess with its refcount at all. Please dont use maybe_get_net() : This function should not ever be used in drivers/net You can add a BUG_ON(dev_net(xxxx)->count <= 0) if you really want, but if this assertion is false, this is not because of pppoe. lock_sock(sk); @@ -653,10 +642,12 @@ static int pppoe_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uservaddr, if (stage_session(po->pppoe_pa.sid)) { pppox_unbind_sock(sk); if (po->pppoe_dev) { - pn = pppoe_pernet(dev_net(po->pppoe_dev)); + struct net *old = dev_net(po->pppoe_dev); + pn = pppoe_pernet(old); delete_item(pn, po->pppoe_pa.sid, po->pppoe_pa.remote, po->pppoe_ifindex); dev_put(po->pppoe_dev); + put_net(old); } memset(sk_pppox(po) + 1, 0, sizeof(struct pppox_sock) - sizeof(struct sock)); There is still a race here, since you do a dev_put(po->ppoe_dev); without any lock held So pppoe_flush_dev() can run concurently and dev_put(po->ppoe_dev) at same time. In fact pppoe_flush_dev() can change po->ppoe_dev anytime, so you should check all occurences of po->ppoe_dev use in the code and check if appropriate locking is done. pppoe_rcv_core() is not safe pppoe_ioctl() is not safe pppoe_sendmsg() is not safe __pppoe_xmit() is not safe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html