Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.17-rc1] net: fix neigh_delete to handle mult.tables

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Date: Fri Apr 21 2006 - 00:18:36 EST


In article <20060421.125543.126764691.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:55:43 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> In article <4448520C.5080508@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:31:24 -0400), Don Law <opendon@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
>
> > One side effect of this change is that neigh_lookup is now called while
> > a read lock is held on neigh_tbl_lock. neigh_lookup does take read
> > locks on the tbl->lock set. However, this does not introduce any new lock
> > order dependencies, since we already have that precedent set in the
> > neightbl_set function.
>
> I don't think this is good change.
>
> What you need to fix your problem is to remove the last
> "goto out_dev_put;" isn't it?

Hmm, okay, I notice we need to hold lock for pneigh_delete().
How about this? Also handles proxy neighbors.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 4cf878e..fa3227a 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@ int neigh_delete(struct sk_buff *skb, st
(dev = dev_get_by_index(ndm->ndm_ifindex)) == NULL)
goto out;

+ err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+
read_lock(&neigh_tbl_lock);
for (tbl = neigh_tables; tbl; tbl = tbl->next) {
struct rtattr *dst_attr = nda[NDA_DST - 1];
@@ -1437,32 +1439,33 @@ int neigh_delete(struct sk_buff *skb, st

if (tbl->family != ndm->ndm_family)
continue;
- read_unlock(&neigh_tbl_lock);

- err = -EINVAL;
- if (!dst_attr || RTA_PAYLOAD(dst_attr) < tbl->key_len)
- goto out_dev_put;
+ if (!dst_attr || RTA_PAYLOAD(dst_attr) < tbl->key_len) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }

if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_PROXY) {
- err = pneigh_delete(tbl, RTA_DATA(dst_attr), dev);
- goto out_dev_put;
+ if (!pneigh_delete(tbl, RTA_DATA(dst_attr), dev)) {
+ read_unlock(&neigh_tbl_lock);
+ break;
+ }
}

if (!dev)
- goto out;
+ continue;

n = neigh_lookup(tbl, RTA_DATA(dst_attr), dev);
if (n) {
+ read_unlock(&neigh_tbl_lock);
err = neigh_update(n, NULL, NUD_FAILED,
NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE|
NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN);
neigh_release(n);
+ break;
}
- goto out_dev_put;
}
read_unlock(&neigh_tbl_lock);
- err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
-out_dev_put:
if (dev)
dev_put(dev);
out:

--
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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