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[net-next,3/6] rtnetlink: switch rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size to rcu

Message ID 20170810145302.30391-4-fw@strlen.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Florian Westphal Aug. 10, 2017, 2:52 p.m. UTC
David Ahern reports following splat:
 RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (5717)
 netdev_master_upper_dev_get+0x5f/0x70
 if_nlmsg_size+0x158/0x240
 rtnl_calcit.isra.26+0xa3/0xf0

rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size currently assumes RTNL protection, but
there appears to be no hard requirement for this, so use rcu instead.

At the time of this writing, there are three 'get_slave_size' callbacks
(now invoked under rcu): bond_get_slave_size, vrf_get_slave_size and
br_port_get_slave_size, all return constant only (i.e. they don't sleep).

Fixes: 6853dd488119 ("rtnetlink: protect handler table with rcu")
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

David Ahern Aug. 10, 2017, 4:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On 8/10/17 8:52 AM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> David Ahern reports following splat:
>  RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (5717)
>  netdev_master_upper_dev_get+0x5f/0x70
>  if_nlmsg_size+0x158/0x240
>  rtnl_calcit.isra.26+0xa3/0xf0
> 
> rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size currently assumes RTNL protection, but
> there appears to be no hard requirement for this, so use rcu instead.
> 
> At the time of this writing, there are three 'get_slave_size' callbacks
> (now invoked under rcu): bond_get_slave_size, vrf_get_slave_size and
> br_port_get_slave_size, all return constant only (i.e. they don't sleep).
> 
> Fixes: 6853dd488119 ("rtnetlink: protect handler table with rcu")
> Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> ---
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index a9b5ebc1af21..087f2434813a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -402,16 +402,24 @@  static size_t rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size(const struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct net_device *master_dev;
 	const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops;
+	size_t size = 0;
 
-	master_dev = netdev_master_upper_dev_get((struct net_device *) dev);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	master_dev = netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu((struct net_device *)dev);
 	if (!master_dev)
-		return 0;
+		goto out;
+
 	ops = master_dev->rtnl_link_ops;
 	if (!ops || !ops->get_slave_size)
-		return 0;
+		goto out;
 	/* IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA + nested data */
-	return nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
+	size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
 	       ops->get_slave_size(master_dev, dev);
+
+out:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	return size;
 }
 
 static size_t rtnl_link_get_size(const struct net_device *dev)