Re: [PATCH] xfrm: init skb_head lock for transport-mode packets

From: Artem Savkov
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 06:20:34 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:01:32PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 11:36:28AM +0100, Artem Savkov wrote:
> > Commit acf568ee859f "xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through tasklet"
> > adds an sk_buff_head queue, but never initializes trans->queue.lock, which
> > results in a "spinlock bad magic" BUG on skb_queue_tail() call in
> > xfrm_trans_queue.
> > Use skb_queue_head_init() instead of __skb_queue_head_init() to properly
> > initialize said lock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for catching this. But we don't need the lock as this
> is meant to be per-CPU only. So we should remove the locking
> instead:

Right, thats a better solution.

Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you.

> ---8<---
> xfrm: Use __skb_queue_tail in xfrm_trans_queue
>
> We do not need locking in xfrm_trans_queue because it is designed
> to use per-CPU buffers. However, the original code incorrectly
> used skb_queue_tail which takes the lock. This patch switches
> it to __skb_queue_tail instead.
>
> Reported-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: acf568ee859f ("xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets...")
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
> index 098f47a..1eb0bba 100644
> --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
> +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ int xfrm_trans_queue_net(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
>
> XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->finish = finish;
> XFRM_TRANS_SKB_CB(skb)->net = net;
> - skb_queue_tail(&trans->queue, skb);
> + __skb_queue_tail(&trans->queue, skb);
> tasklet_schedule(&trans->tasklet);
> return 0;
> }

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Regards,
Artem