This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: fix race in concurrent ip_route_input_slow() to the 3.10-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: ipv4-fix-race-in-concurrent-ip_route_input_slow.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7061e17d06decf63b27432a83011934ca47b0fd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:12:34 -0800 Subject: ipv4: fix race in concurrent ip_route_input_slow() From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dcdfdf56b4a6c9437fc37dbc9cee94a788f9b0c4 ] CPUs can ask for local route via ip_route_input_noref() concurrently. if nh_rth_input is not cached yet, CPUs will proceed to allocate equivalent DSTs on 'lo' and then will try to cache them in nh_rth_input via rt_cache_route() Most of the time they succeed, but on occasion the following two lines: orig = *p; prev = cmpxchg(p, orig, rt); in rt_cache_route() do race and one of the cpus fails to complete cmpxchg. But ip_route_input_slow() doesn't check the return code of rt_cache_route(), so dst is leaking. dst_destroy() is never called and 'lo' device refcnt doesn't go to zero, which can be seen in the logs as: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1 Adding mdelay() between above two lines makes it easily reproducible. Fix it similar to nh_pcpu_rth_output case. Fixes: d2d68ba9fe8b ("ipv4: Cache input routes in fib_info nexthops.") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/route.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -1720,8 +1720,12 @@ local_input: rth->dst.error= -err; rth->rt_flags &= ~RTCF_LOCAL; } - if (do_cache) - rt_cache_route(&FIB_RES_NH(res), rth); + if (do_cache) { + if (unlikely(!rt_cache_route(&FIB_RES_NH(res), rth))) { + rth->dst.flags |= DST_NOCACHE; + rt_add_uncached_list(rth); + } + } skb_dst_set(skb, &rth->dst); err = 0; goto out; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ipv4-fix-race-in-concurrent-ip_route_input_slow.patch queue-3.10/tcp-gso-fix-truesize-tracking.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html