This should be fixed by: commit 35b4f24415c854cd718ccdf38dbea6297f010aae Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 1 04:02:58 2021 +0800 sctp: do asoc update earlier in sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:12 PM Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm trying to understand the crash we experience with Linux v4.19 > (sorry for the ancient codebase, but actually the affected code is largely > unchanged up to now). > > This is hard but reproducible: > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI > CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G O 4.19.155-g... > ... > RIP: 0010:sctp_assoc_control_transport+0x1db/0x290 [sctp] > Code: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 bd 01 00 00 00 31 c0 48 89 e7 b9 10 00 00 00 f3 48 ab 48 8b 86 a8 00 00 00 48 89 e7 48 81 c6 88 00 00 00 <48> 63 90 bc 00 00 00 e8 29 61 2b e1 31 d2 41 b9 20 00 48 00 41 89 > RSP: 0018:ffff88846fc43ba8 EFLAGS: 00010286 > RAX: 7070682e72656d69 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8882984b3888 RDI: ffff88846fc43ba8 > RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000022e80 R09: ffff88846fc43cd8 > R10: ffffffffa0562cf0 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: 0000000000000000 > R13: ffff88846fc43cd8 R14: ffff8881bd588000 R15: ffff88846fc43e18 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88846fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 00000000024b3160 CR3: 000000000320a006 CR4: 00000000003607e0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Call Trace: > <IRQ> > sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike.isra.10+0xd3/0x1a0 [sctp] > ? sctp_oname+0x20/0x20 [sctp] > sctp_do_sm+0x15fb/0x1d00 [sctp] > ? try_to_wake_up+0x226/0x4b0 > ? __update_load_avg_se+0x219/0x2c0 > ? enqueue_entity+0xc4/0x850 > ? enqueue_entity+0x17f/0x850 > ? enqueue_task_fair+0xe5/0x950 > ? __update_load_avg_cfs_rq+0x1e2/0x280 > ? resched_curr+0x20/0xd0 > ? check_preempt_curr+0x4e/0x90 > ? ttwu_do_wakeup.isra.21+0x19/0x170 > sctp_generate_timeout_event+0xa8/0xf0 [sctp] > ? sctp_generate_t4_rto_event+0x20/0x20 [sctp] > ? sctp_generate_t4_rto_event+0x20/0x20 [sctp] > call_timer_fn+0x32/0x170 > expire_timers+0x9d/0x110 > run_timer_softirq+0x8a/0x160 > ? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x156/0x2e0 > __do_softirq+0xaf/0x33e > irq_exit+0xbf/0xe0 > smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7d/0x170 > apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 > </IRQ> > > The exploding code in sctp_assoc_control_transport() is: > > /* Generate and send a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE notification > * to the user. > */ > if (ulp_notify) { > memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)); > memcpy(&addr, &transport->ipaddr, > transport->af_specific->sockaddr_len); > > where "transport" pointer seems to be freed and re-used, so the dereference > to obtain "af_specific" leads to the dump above. This memset/memcpy pair > has been factored out into sctp_ulpevent_notify_peer_addr_change(), but > this most probably doesn't solve the problem. > > According to the stack above, the race seems to be between this code: > > enum sctp_disposition sctp_sf_t4_timer_expire( > struct net *net, > const struct sctp_endpoint *ep, > const struct sctp_association *asoc, > const union sctp_subtype type, > void *arg, > struct sctp_cmd_seq *commands) > { > struct sctp_chunk *chunk = asoc->addip_last_asconf; > struct sctp_transport *transport = chunk->transport; > > SCTP_INC_STATS(net, SCTP_MIB_T4_RTO_EXPIREDS); > > /* ADDIP 4.1 B1) Increment the error counters and perform path failure > * detection on the appropriate destination address as defined in > * RFC2960 [5] section 8.1 and 8.2. > */ > if (transport) > sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_STRIKE, > SCTP_TRANSPORT(transport)); > > > and > > void sctp_assoc_rm_peer(struct sctp_association *asoc, > struct sctp_transport *peer) > { > ... > /* If we remove the transport an ASCONF was last sent to, set it to > * NULL. > */ > if (asoc->addip_last_asconf && > asoc->addip_last_asconf->transport == peer) > asoc->addip_last_asconf->transport = NULL; > > ... > asoc->peer.transport_count--; > > sctp_transport_free(peer); > } > > So instead of doing sctp_transport_hold() on the addip_last_asconf->transport, > the code relies on the NULL assignment to be propagated. > > As I do not see any memory barrier or lock here, I have several questions: > > - Is it possible that sctp_assoc_control_transport() runs in a timer handler > in parallel to sctp_assoc_rm_peer() running on a different core? > In this case there would be no guarantee, that NULL assignment will reach > another core. > > - What was the designed guarantee, that sctp_assoc_control_transport() will see > the change to asoc->addip_last_asconf->transport = NULL ? > > - What about all the similar NULL assignments in sctp_assoc_rm_peer()? > > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Sverdlin.