Re: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: fix race between ip_vs_conn_new() andip_vs_del_dest()

Thanks for your reviewing, I have sent patch-v2, please check it.

Hello,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Tan Hu wrote:

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We came across infinite loop in ipvs when using ipvs in docker
env.

When ipvs receives new packets and cannot find an ipvs connection,
it will create a new connection, then if the dest is unavailable
(i.e. IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE), the packet will be dropped sliently.

But if the dropped packet is the first packet of this connection,
the connection control timer never has a chance to start and the
ipvs connection cannot be released. This will lead to memory leak, or
infinite loop in cleanup_net() when net namespace is released like
this:

ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f31a [ip_vs]
__ip_vs_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f60a [ip_vs]
ops_exit_list at ffffffff81567a49
cleanup_net at ffffffff81568b40
process_one_work at ffffffff810a851b
worker_thread at ffffffff810a9356
kthread at ffffffff810b0b6f
ret_from_fork at ffffffff81697a18

race condition:
CPU1 CPU2
ip_vs_in()
ip_vs_conn_new()
ip_vs_del_dest()
__ip_vs_unlink_dest()
~IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
cp->dest && !IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
__ip_vs_conn_put
...
cleanup_net ---> infinite looping

Fix this by checking whether the timer already started.

Looks like an old bug...

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Signed-off-by: Tan Hu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <redacted>
---
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index 0679dd1..ca9e7cc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c

@@ -1972,13 +1972,17 @@ static int ip_vs_in_icmp_v6(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb,

if (cp->dest && !(cp->dest->flags & IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE)) {
/* the destination server is not available */

Add: u32 flags = cp->flags;

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+ /* when timer already started, silently drop the packet.*/
+ if (timer_pending(&cp->timer))
+ __ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+ else
+ ip_vs_conn_put(cp);

When ip_vs_conn_put is called for IP_VS_CONN_F_ONE_PACKET
it is possible to call ip_vs_conn_expire and to free cp with
ip_vs_conn_rcu_free immediately. What we can do is to avoid the
ip_vs_conn_expire_now call in such case by reading the flags
early (as above) and adding the needed check (as below).

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+
if (sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) {

Add !(flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_ONE_PACKET) check in above 'if'.

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/* try to expire the connection immediately */
ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
}
- /* don't restart its timer, and silently
- drop the packet. */
- __ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+
return NF_DROP;
}

Regards