On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 14:31 +0400, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> Lets look at destroy_conntrack:
>
> hlist_nulls_del_rcu(&ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].hnnode);
> ...
> nf_conntrack_free(ct)
> kmem_cache_free(net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep, ct);
>
> net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep is created with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
>
> The hash is protected by rcu, so readers look up conntracks without
> locks.
> A conntrack is removed from the hash, but in this moment a few readers
> still can use the conntrack. Then this conntrack is released and another
> thread creates conntrack with the same address and the equal tuple.
> After this a reader starts to validate the conntrack:
> * It's not dying, because a new conntrack was created
> * nf_ct_tuple_equal() returns true.
>
> But this conntrack is not initialized yet, so it can not be used by two
> threads concurrently. In this case BUG_ON may be triggered from
> nf_nat_setup_info().
>
> Florian Westphal suggested to check the confirm bit too. I think it's
> right.
>
> task 1 task 2 task 3
> nf_conntrack_find_get
> ____nf_conntrack_find
> destroy_conntrack
> hlist_nulls_del_rcu
> nf_conntrack_free
> kmem_cache_free
> __nf_conntrack_alloc
> kmem_cache_alloc
> memset(&ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_MAX],
> if (nf_ct_is_dying(ct))
> if (!nf_ct_tuple_equal()
>
> I'm not sure, that I have ever seen this race condition in a real life.
> Currently we are investigating a bug, which is reproduced on a few node.
> In our case one conntrack is initialized from a few tasks concurrently,
> we don't have any other explanation for this.
>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> index 43549eb..7a34bb2 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> @@ -387,8 +387,12 @@ begin:
> !atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use)))
> h = NULL;
> else {
> + /* A conntrack can be recreated with the equal tuple,
> + * so we need to check that the conntrack is initialized
> + */
> if (unlikely(!nf_ct_tuple_equal(tuple, &h->tuple) ||
> - nf_ct_zone(ct) != zone)) {
> + nf_ct_zone(ct) != zone) ||
> + !nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct)) {
> nf_ct_put(ct);
> goto begin;
> }
I do not think this is the right way to fix this problem (if said
problem is confirmed)
Remember the rule about SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU :
When a struct is freed, then reused, its important to set the its refcnt
(from 0 to 1) only when the structure is fully ready for use.
If a lookup finds a structure which is not yet setup, the
atomic_inc_not_zero() will fail.
Take a look at sk_clone_lock() and Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
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