On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 09:51:40PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> I overlooked the svc->sched_data usage from schedulers
> when the services were converted to RCU in 3.10. Now
> the rare ipvsadm -E command can change the scheduler
> but due to the reverse order of ip_vs_bind_scheduler
> and ip_vs_unbind_scheduler we provide new sched_data
> to the old scheduler resulting in a crash.
>
> To fix it without changing the scheduler methods we
> have to use synchronize_rcu() only for the editing case.
> It means all svc->scheduler readers should expect a
> NULL value. To avoid breakage for the service listing
> and ipvsadm -R we can use the "none" name to indicate
> that scheduler is not assigned, a state when we drop
> new connections.
>
> Reported-by: Alexander Vasiliev <a.vasylev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: ceec4c381681 ("ipvs: convert services to rcu")
> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Thanks, I have pushed this to the ipvs tree after dropping
the previous version of this patch.
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