This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
macvlan: fix passthru mode race between dev removal and rx path
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
macvlan-fix-passthru-mode-race-between-dev-removal-and-rx-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From be2f1b1ca3363534ddc26b854290688471d7d973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 04:23:40 +0000
Subject: macvlan: fix passthru mode race between dev removal and rx path
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 233c7df0821c4190e2d3f4be0f2ca0ab40a5ed8c, note
that I had to add list_first_or_null_rcu to rculist.h in order
to accomodate this fix. ]
Currently, if macvlan in passthru mode is created and data are rxed and
you remove this device, following panic happens:
NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000198
IP: [<ffffffffa0196058>] macvlan_handle_frame+0x153/0x1f7 [macvlan]
I'm using following script to trigger this:
<script>
while [ 1 ]
do
ip link add link e1 name macvtap0 type macvtap mode passthru
ip link set e1 up
ip link set macvtap0 up
IFINDEX=`ip link |grep macvtap0 | cut -f 1 -d ':'`
cat /dev/tap$IFINDEX >/dev/null &
ip link del dev macvtap0
done
</script>
I run this script while "ping -f" is running on another machine to send
packets to e1 rx.
Reason of the panic is that list_first_entry() is blindly called in
macvlan_handle_frame() even if the list was empty. vlan is set to
incorrect pointer which leads to the crash.
I'm fixing this by protecting port->vlans list by rcu and by preventing
from getting incorrect pointer in case the list is empty.
Introduced by: commit eb06acdc85585f2 "macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device"
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 ++++---
include/linux/rculist.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ static rx_handler_result_t macvlan_handl
}
if (port->passthru)
- vlan = list_first_entry(&port->vlans, struct macvlan_dev, list);
+ vlan = list_first_or_null_rcu(&port->vlans,
+ struct macvlan_dev, list);
else
vlan = macvlan_hash_lookup(port, eth->h_dest);
if (vlan == NULL)
@@ -724,7 +725,7 @@ int macvlan_common_newlink(struct net *s
if (err < 0)
goto destroy_port;
- list_add_tail(&vlan->list, &port->vlans);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&vlan->list, &port->vlans);
netif_stacked_transfer_operstate(lowerdev, dev);
return 0;
@@ -750,7 +751,7 @@ void macvlan_dellink(struct net_device *
{
struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
- list_del(&vlan->list);
+ list_del_rcu(&vlan->list);
unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(macvlan_dellink);
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -242,6 +242,23 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(
list_entry_rcu((ptr)->next, type, member)
/**
+ * list_first_or_null_rcu - get the first element from a list
+ * @ptr: the list head to take the element from.
+ * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * Note that if the list is empty, it returns NULL.
+ *
+ * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation
+ * primitives such as list_add_rcu() as long as it's guarded by rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+#define list_first_or_null_rcu(ptr, type, member) \
+ ({struct list_head *__ptr = (ptr); \
+ struct list_head __rcu *__next = list_next_rcu(__ptr); \
+ likely(__ptr != __next) ? container_of(__next, type, member) : NULL; \
+ })
+
+/**
* list_for_each_entry_rcu - iterate over rcu list of given type
* @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor.
* @head: the head for your list.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/macvlan-fix-passthru-mode-race-between-dev-removal-and-rx-path.patch
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