Re: BUG: spinlock bad magic in tun_do_read

From: Cong Wang
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 22:50:49 EST


On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/07/2018 10:54 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, we should return early before hitting this uninitialized ptr ring...
>> Something like:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> index ef33950a45d9..638c87a95247 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> @@ -2128,6 +2128,9 @@ static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_file
>> *tfile, int noblock, int *err)
>> void *ptr = NULL;
>> int error = 0;
>>
>> + if (!tfile->tx_ring.queue)
>> + goto out;
>> +
>>
>> Or, checking if tun is detached...
>>
>>
>
> tx_ring was properly initialized when first ptr_ring_consume() at line 2131 was attempted.
>
> The bug happens later at line 2143 , after a schedule() call, line 2155
>
> So a single check at function prologue wont solve the case the thread had to sleep,
> then some uninit happened.


Very good point. RTNL lock is supposed to protect cleanup path, but I don't
think we can acquire RTNL for tun_chr_read_iter() path...