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author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> | 2013-11-19 19:12:34 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-11-20 15:28:44 -0500 |
commit | dcdfdf56b4a6c9437fc37dbc9cee94a788f9b0c4 (patch) | |
tree | f240417b7245048480497491fc82b464f14ebadd /Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | |
parent | 4f837c3b117c4fdae72d901034d0565d16af7966 (diff) |
ipv4: fix race in concurrent ip_route_input_slow()
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@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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