Re: [PATCH] net: frag, fix race conditions in LRU list maintenance

From: David Miller
Date: Sun May 05 2013 - 13:37:17 EST


From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 18:56:22 +0400

> This patch fixes race between inet_frag_lru_move() and inet_frag_lru_add()
> which was introduced in commit 3ef0eb0db4bf92c6d2510fe5c4dc51852746f206
> ("net: frag, move LRU list maintenance outside of rwlock")
>
> One cpu already added new fragment queue into hash but not into LRU.
> Other cpu found it in hash and tries to move it to the end of LRU.
> This leads to NULL pointer dereference inside of list_move_tail().
>
> Another possible race condition is between inet_frag_lru_move() and
> inet_frag_lru_del(): move can happens after deletion.
>
> This patch initializes LRU list head before adding fragment into hash and
> inet_frag_lru_move() doesn't touches it if it's empty.
>
> I saw this kernel oops two times in a couple of days.
...
> Oops happened on this path:
> ip_defrag() -> ip_frag_queue() -> inet_frag_lru_move() -> list_move_tail() -> __list_del_entry()
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks good to me, Jesper and co. please review.
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