Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 7 authors, 2025-01-17

Re: [v3 PATCH] rhashtable: Fix rhashtable_try_insert test

From: Zaslonko Mikhail <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-17 13:21:04
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Hello,

On 14.01.2025 04:15, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 06:22:40PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:

Thanks for testing! The patch needs one more change though as
moving the atomic_inc outside of the lock was a bad idea on my
part.  This could cause atomic_inc/atomic_dec to be reordered
thus resulting in an underflow.

Thanks,
I've tested v3 patch on s390 for the boot OOM problem with 'mem=1G'
kernel parameter we experience on current linux-next kernel and confirm
that the issue is no longer present.

Tested-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---8<---
The test on whether rhashtable_insert_one did an insertion relies
on the value returned by rhashtable_lookup_one.  Unfortunately that
value is overwritten after rhashtable_insert_one returns.  Fix this
by moving the test before data gets overwritten.

Simplify the test as only data == NULL matters.

Finally move atomic_inc back within the lock as otherwise it may
be reordered with the atomic_dec on the removal side, potentially
leading to an underflow.

Reported-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>
Fixes: e1d3422c95f0 ("rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index bf956b85455a..0e9a1d4cf89b 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -611,21 +611,23 @@ static void *rhashtable_try_insert(struct rhashtable *ht, const void *key,
 			new_tbl = rht_dereference_rcu(tbl->future_tbl, ht);
 			data = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 		} else {
+			bool inserted;
+
 			flags = rht_lock(tbl, bkt);
 			data = rhashtable_lookup_one(ht, bkt, tbl,
 						     hash, key, obj);
 			new_tbl = rhashtable_insert_one(ht, bkt, tbl,
 							hash, obj, data);
+			inserted = data && !new_tbl;
+			if (inserted)
+				atomic_inc(&ht->nelems);
 			if (PTR_ERR(new_tbl) != -EEXIST)
 				data = ERR_CAST(new_tbl);
 
 			rht_unlock(tbl, bkt, flags);
 
-			if (PTR_ERR(data) == -ENOENT && !new_tbl) {
-				atomic_inc(&ht->nelems);
-				if (rht_grow_above_75(ht, tbl))
-					schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
-			}
+			if (inserted && rht_grow_above_75(ht, tbl))
+				schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
 		}
 	} while (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new_tbl));
 
Thanks!
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