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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch] xfrm_policy destructor fix
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:34:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325143440.GA4516@elte.hu> (raw)


the patch below fixes a bug that i encountered while running a 
PREEMPT_RT kernel, but i believe it should be fixed in the generic 
kernel too. xfrm_policy_kill() queues a destroyed policy structure to 
the GC list, and unlocks the policy->lock spinlock _after_ that point.  
This created a scenario where GC processing got to the new structure 
first, and kfree()d it - then the write_unlock_bh() was done on the 
already kfreed structure. There is no guarantee that GC processing will 
be done after policy->lock has been dropped and softirq processing has 
been enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--- linux/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c.orig
+++ linux/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -301,18 +301,22 @@ static void xfrm_policy_gc_task(void *da
 static void xfrm_policy_kill(struct xfrm_policy *policy)
 {
 	write_lock_bh(&policy->lock);
-	if (policy->dead)
-		goto out;
-
+	if (policy->dead) {
+		write_unlock_bh(&policy->lock);
+		return;
+	}
 	policy->dead = 1;
 
 	spin_lock(&xfrm_policy_gc_lock);
 	list_add(&policy->list, &xfrm_policy_gc_list);
+	/*
+	 * Unlock the policy (out of order unlocking), to make sure
+	 * the GC context does not free it with an active lock:
+	 */
+	write_unlock_bh(&policy->lock);
 	spin_unlock(&xfrm_policy_gc_lock);
-	schedule_work(&xfrm_policy_gc_work);
 
-out:
-	write_unlock_bh(&policy->lock);
+	schedule_work(&xfrm_policy_gc_work);
 }
 
 /* Generate new index... KAME seems to generate them ordered by cost

             reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25 14:34 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-03-25 17:28 ` [patch] xfrm_policy destructor fix David S. Miller
2005-03-26  1:11   ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-01  6:27     ` David S. Miller

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