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tipc: fix suspicious RCU usage

Message ID 1465971057-16660-1-git-send-email-ying.xue@windriver.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ying Xue June 15, 2016, 6:10 a.m. UTC
When run tipcTS&tipcTC test suite, the following complaint appears:

[   56.926168] ===============================
[   56.926169] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[   56.926171] 4.7.0-rc1+ #160 Not tainted
[   56.926173] -------------------------------
[   56.926174] net/tipc/bearer.c:408 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
[   56.926175]
[   56.926175] other info that might help us debug this:
[   56.926175]
[   56.926177]
[   56.926177] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[   56.926179] 3 locks held by swapper/4/0:
[   56.926180]  #0:  (((&req->timer))){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810e79b5>] call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
[   56.926203]  #1:  (&(&req->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffffa000c29b>] disc_timeout+0x1b/0xd0 [tipc]
[   56.926212]  #2:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffffa00055e0>] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926218]
[   56.926218] stack backtrace:
[   56.926221] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #160
[   56.926222] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
[   56.926224]  0000000000000000 ffff880016803d28 ffffffff813c4423 ffff8800154252c0
[   56.926227]  0000000000000001 ffff880016803d58 ffffffff810b7512 ffff8800124d8120
[   56.926230]  ffff880013f8a160 ffff8800132b5ccc ffff8800124d8120 ffff880016803d88
[   56.926234] Call Trace:
[   56.926235]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff813c4423>] dump_stack+0x67/0x94
[   56.926250]  [<ffffffff810b7512>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe2/0x120
[   56.926256]  [<ffffffffa00051f1>] tipc_l2_send_msg+0x131/0x1c0 [tipc]
[   56.926261]  [<ffffffffa000567c>] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x14c/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926266]  [<ffffffffa00055e0>] ? tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926273]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926278]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926283]  [<ffffffffa000c2d6>] disc_timeout+0x56/0xd0 [tipc]
[   56.926288]  [<ffffffff810e7a68>] call_timer_fn+0xb8/0x340
[   56.926291]  [<ffffffff810e79b5>] ? call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
[   56.926296]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926300]  [<ffffffff810e8f4a>] run_timer_softirq+0x23a/0x390
[   56.926306]  [<ffffffff810f89ff>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x7f/0x130
[   56.926316]  [<ffffffff819727c3>] __do_softirq+0xc3/0x4a2
[   56.926323]  [<ffffffff8106ba5a>] irq_exit+0x8a/0xb0
[   56.926327]  [<ffffffff81972456>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0x60
[   56.926331]  [<ffffffff81970a49>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x89/0x90
[   56.926333]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff81027fda>] ? default_idle+0x2a/0x1a0
[   56.926340]  [<ffffffff81027fd8>] ? default_idle+0x28/0x1a0
[   56.926342]  [<ffffffff810289cf>] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
[   56.926345]  [<ffffffff810adf0f>] default_idle_call+0x2f/0x50
[   56.926347]  [<ffffffff810ae145>] cpu_startup_entry+0x215/0x3e0
[   56.926353]  [<ffffffff81040ad9>] start_secondary+0xf9/0x100

The warning appears as rtnl_dereference() is wrongly used in
tipc_l2_send_msg() under RCU read lock protection. Instead the proper
usage should be that rcu_dereference_rtnl() is called here.

Fixes: 5b7066c3dd24 ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer layer")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
---
 net/tipc/bearer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Miller June 16, 2016, 4:47 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:10:57 +0800

> When run tipcTS&tipcTC test suite, the following complaint appears:
 ...
> The warning appears as rtnl_dereference() is wrongly used in
> tipc_l2_send_msg() under RCU read lock protection. Instead the proper
> usage should be that rcu_dereference_rtnl() is called here.
> 
> Fixes: 5b7066c3dd24 ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer layer")
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.c b/net/tipc/bearer.c
index 6f11c62..bf8f05c 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@  int tipc_l2_send_msg(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Send RESET message even if bearer is detached from device */
-	tipc_ptr = rtnl_dereference(dev->tipc_ptr);
+	tipc_ptr = rcu_dereference_rtnl(dev->tipc_ptr);
 	if (unlikely(!tipc_ptr && !msg_is_reset(buf_msg(skb))))
 		goto drop;