Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2020-03-25

Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix a RCU-list bug in inet_dump_fib()

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From: David Ahern <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-19 22:32:22
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On 3/19/20 4:11 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
There is a place,

inet_dump_fib()
  fib_table_dump
    fn_trie_dump_leaf()
      hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()

without rcu_read_lock() triggers a warning,

 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
 -----------------------------
 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:2216 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!

 other info that might help us debug this:

 rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
 1 lock held by ip/1923:
  #0: ffffffff8ce76e40 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: netlink_dump+0xd6/0x840

 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0xa1/0xea
  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x103/0x10d
  fn_trie_dump_leaf+0x581/0x590
  fib_table_dump+0x15f/0x220
  inet_dump_fib+0x4ad/0x5d0
  netlink_dump+0x350/0x840
  __netlink_dump_start+0x315/0x3e0
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4d1/0x720
  netlink_rcv_skb+0xf0/0x220
  rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x20
  netlink_unicast+0x306/0x460
  netlink_sendmsg+0x44b/0x770
  __sys_sendto+0x259/0x270
  __x64_sys_sendto+0x80/0xa0
  do_syscall_64+0x69/0xf4
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3
Fixes: 18a8021a7be3 ("net/ipv4: Plumb support for filtering route dumps")

but you have a problem below ...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <redacted>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 577db1d50a24..5e441282d647 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -987,6 +987,8 @@ static int inet_dump_fib(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	if (filter.flags & RTM_F_PREFIX)
 		return skb->len;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
 	if (filter.table_id) {
 		tb = fib_get_table(net, filter.table_id);
 		if (!tb) {
this branch has 2 return points which now have rcu_read_lock; you should
have seen this when you tested the change..

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