Re: [PATCH] net dst: fix percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten

[Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>]

On 11/03/2010 01:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 10:11 +0800, Xiaotian Feng a écrit :
>> There're some percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten warnings
>> in recent kernel, which is resulted by fc66f95c.
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>> commit fc66f95c switches to use percpu_counter, in ip6_route_net_init, kernel
>> init the percpu_counter for dst entries, but, the percpu_counter is never destroyed
>> in ip6_route_net_exit. So if the related data is freed by kernel, the freed percpu_counter
>> is still on the list, then if we insert/remove other percpu_counter, list corruption
>> resulted. Also, if the insert/remove option modifies the ->prev,->next pointer of
>> the freed value, the poison overwritten is resulted then.
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>> With the following patch, the percpu_counter list corruption and poison overwritten
>> warnings disappeared.
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>> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller"<davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
>> Cc: "Pekka Savola (ipv6)"<pekkas@netcore.fi>
>> Cc: James Morris<jmorris@namei.org>
>> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
>> Cc: Patrick McHardy<kaber@trash.net>
>> ---
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> Good catch, thanks !
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> Any reason you didnt Cc me (the author of the patch) ?
Sorry, I just used get_maintainer.pl to get the cc list...
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> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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