@@ -154,9 +154,12 @@ static struct mr_table *ipmr_get_table(struct net *net, u32 id)
static int ipmr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *flp4,
struct mr_table **mrt)
{
- struct ipmr_result res;
- struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
int err;
+ struct ipmr_result res;
+ struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+ .result = &res,
+ .flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+ };
err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv4.mr_rules_ops,
flowi4_to_flowi(flp4), 0, &arg);
@@ -138,9 +138,12 @@ static struct mr6_table *ip6mr_get_table(struct net *net, u32 id)
static int ip6mr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi6 *flp6,
struct mr6_table **mrt)
{
- struct ip6mr_result res;
- struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
int err;
+ struct ip6mr_result res;
+ struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+ .result = &res,
+ .flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+ };
err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv6.mr6_rules_ops,
flowi6_to_flowi(flp6), 0, &arg);
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From b01d18cda0de1c792794fa62c37e6e8637d4a7b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 02:45:22 +0100 Subject: net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast forwarding commit 95f4a45de1a0f172b35451fc52283290adb21f6e upstream. Bob Falken reported that after 4G packets, multicast forwarding stopped working. This was because of a rule reference counter overflow which freed the rule as soon as the overflow happend. This patch solves this by adding the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag to fib_rules_lookup calls. This is safe even from non-rcu locked sections as in this case the flag only implies not taking a reference to the rule, which we don't need at all. Rules only hold references to the namespace, which are guaranteed to be available during the call of the non-rcu protected function reg_vif_xmit because of the interface reference which itself holds a reference to the net namespace. Fixes: f0ad0860d01e47 ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables") Fixes: d1db275dd3f6e4 ("ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables") Reported-by: Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@gmx.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 7 +++++-- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2