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[net,v3,3/3] net: netprio: fix cgrp create and write priomap race

Message ID 20120814223435.3551.62387.stgit@jf-dev1-dcblab
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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John Fastabend Aug. 14, 2012, 10:34 p.m. UTC
A race exists where creating cgroups and also updating the priomap
may result in losing a priomap update. This is because priomap
writers are not protected by rtnl_lock.

Move priority writer into rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock().

CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
---

 net/core/netprio_cgroup.c |    8 +++-----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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Comments

Neil Horman Aug. 15, 2012, 10:56 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:34:35PM -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> A race exists where creating cgroups and also updating the priomap
> may result in losing a priomap update. This is because priomap
> writers are not protected by rtnl_lock.
> 
> Move priority writer into rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock().
> 
> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  net/core/netprio_cgroup.c |    8 +++-----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> index f65dba3..c75e3f9 100644
> --- a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> +++ b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> @@ -101,12 +101,10 @@ static int write_update_netdev_table(struct net_device *dev)
>  	u32 max_len;
>  	struct netprio_map *map;
>  
> -	rtnl_lock();
>  	max_len = atomic_read(&max_prioidx) + 1;
>  	map = rtnl_dereference(dev->priomap);
>  	if (!map || map->priomap_len < max_len)
>  		ret = extend_netdev_table(dev, max_len);
> -	rtnl_unlock();
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> @@ -256,17 +254,17 @@ static int write_priomap(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
>  	if (!dev)
>  		goto out_free_devname;
>  
> +	rtnl_lock();
>  	ret = write_update_netdev_table(dev);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		goto out_put_dev;
>  
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> -	map = rcu_dereference(dev->priomap);
> +	map = rtnl_dereference(dev->priomap);
>  	if (map)
>  		map->priomap[prioidx] = priority;
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>  out_put_dev:
> +	rtnl_unlock();
>  	dev_put(dev);
>  
>  out_free_devname:
> 
> 

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

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David Miller Aug. 16, 2012, 10:11 p.m. UTC | #2
From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:34:35 -0700

> A race exists where creating cgroups and also updating the priomap
> may result in losing a priomap update. This is because priomap
> writers are not protected by rtnl_lock.
> 
> Move priority writer into rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock().
> 
> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
index f65dba3..c75e3f9 100644
--- a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
+++ b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
@@ -101,12 +101,10 @@  static int write_update_netdev_table(struct net_device *dev)
 	u32 max_len;
 	struct netprio_map *map;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
 	max_len = atomic_read(&max_prioidx) + 1;
 	map = rtnl_dereference(dev->priomap);
 	if (!map || map->priomap_len < max_len)
 		ret = extend_netdev_table(dev, max_len);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -256,17 +254,17 @@  static int write_priomap(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
 	if (!dev)
 		goto out_free_devname;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
 	ret = write_update_netdev_table(dev);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_put_dev;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	map = rcu_dereference(dev->priomap);
+	map = rtnl_dereference(dev->priomap);
 	if (map)
 		map->priomap[prioidx] = priority;
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 out_put_dev:
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	dev_put(dev);
 
 out_free_devname: