Patch "ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipv6-sr-fix-scheduling-in-rcu-when-creating-seg6-lwtunnel-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018
From: David Lebrun <dlebrun@google.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:44:55 +0000
Subject: ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state

From: David Lebrun <dlebrun@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 191f86ca8ef27f7a492fd1c03620498c6e94f0ac ]

The seg6_build_state() function is called with RCU read lock held,
so we cannot use GFP_KERNEL. This patch uses GFP_ATOMIC instead.

[   92.770271] =============================
[   92.770628] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[   92.770921] 4.16.0-rc4+ #12 Not tainted
[   92.771277] -----------------------------
[   92.771585] ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:302 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section!
[   92.772279]
[   92.772279] other info that might help us debug this:
[   92.772279]
[   92.773067]
[   92.773067] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[   92.773514] 2 locks held by ip/2413:
[   92.773765]  #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000e5461720>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x441/0x4d0
[   92.774377]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: [<00000000df4f161e>] lwtunnel_build_state+0x59/0x210
[   92.775065]
[   92.775065] stack backtrace:
[   92.775371] CPU: 0 PID: 2413 Comm: ip Not tainted 4.16.0-rc4+ #12
[   92.775791] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc27 04/01/2014
[   92.776608] Call Trace:
[   92.776852]  dump_stack+0x7d/0xbc
[   92.777130]  __schedule+0x133/0xf00
[   92.777393]  ? unwind_get_return_address_ptr+0x50/0x50
[   92.777783]  ? __sched_text_start+0x8/0x8
[   92.778073]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x19/0x30
[   92.778383]  ? kernel_text_address+0x49/0x60
[   92.778800]  ? __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x30
[   92.779241]  ? unwind_get_return_address+0x29/0x40
[   92.779727]  ? pcpu_alloc+0x102/0x8f0
[   92.780101]  _cond_resched+0x23/0x50
[   92.780459]  __mutex_lock+0xbd/0xad0
[   92.780818]  ? pcpu_alloc+0x102/0x8f0
[   92.781194]  ? seg6_build_state+0x11d/0x240
[   92.781611]  ? save_stack+0x9b/0xb0
[   92.781965]  ? __ww_mutex_wakeup_for_backoff+0xf0/0xf0
[   92.782480]  ? seg6_build_state+0x11d/0x240
[   92.782925]  ? lwtunnel_build_state+0x1bd/0x210
[   92.783393]  ? ip6_route_info_create+0x687/0x1640
[   92.783846]  ? ip6_route_add+0x74/0x110
[   92.784236]  ? inet6_rtm_newroute+0x8a/0xd0

Fixes: 6c8702c60b886 ("ipv6: sr: add support for SRH encapsulation and injection with lwtunnels")
Signed-off-by: David Lebrun <dlebrun@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static int seg6_build_state(struct nlatt
 
 	slwt = seg6_lwt_lwtunnel(newts);
 
-	err = dst_cache_init(&slwt->cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	err = dst_cache_init(&slwt->cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (err) {
 		kfree(newts);
 		return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dlebrun@google.com are

queue-4.14/ipv6-sr-fix-scheduling-in-rcu-when-creating-seg6-lwtunnel-state.patch
queue-4.14/ipv6-sr-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-setting-encap-source-address.patch