Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2020-09-01

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: fixes crash if nf_conncount_init() fails

From: Tonghao Zhang <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-01 13:14:29

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:58 PM Eelco Chaudron [off-list ref] wrote:
If nf_conncount_init fails currently the dispatched work is not canceled,
causing problems when the timer fires. This change fixes this by not
scheduling the work until all initialization is successful.

Fixes: a65878d6f00b ("net: openvswitch: fixes potential deadlock in dp cleanup code")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tonghao Zhang <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 6e47ef7ef036..78941822119f 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2476,13 +2476,19 @@ static int __init dp_register_genl(void)
 static int __net_init ovs_init_net(struct net *net)
 {
        struct ovs_net *ovs_net = net_generic(net, ovs_net_id);
+       int err;

        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ovs_net->dps);
        INIT_WORK(&ovs_net->dp_notify_work, ovs_dp_notify_wq);
        INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ovs_net->masks_rebalance, ovs_dp_masks_rebalance);
+
+       err = ovs_ct_init(net);
+       if (err)
+               return err;
+
        schedule_delayed_work(&ovs_net->masks_rebalance,
                              msecs_to_jiffies(DP_MASKS_REBALANCE_INTERVAL));
-       return ovs_ct_init(net);
+       return 0;
 }

 static void __net_exit list_vports_from_net(struct net *net, struct net *dnet,
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Best regards, Tonghao
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