Re: [PATCH 06/14] net: sched: implement reference counted action release

Jiri Pirko
2018-05-20T06:22:50Z

Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:43:27PM CEST, marcelo.leitner@gmail.com wrote:
>On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:27:07PM +0300, Vlad Buslov wrote:
>...
>> @@ -1052,6 +1088,36 @@ static int tca_action_flush(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
>> return err;
>> }
>>
>> +static int tcf_action_delete(struct net *net, struct list_head *actions,
>> + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>> +{
>> + int ret;
>
>Reverse christmass tree.. this line should be the last in variable
>declarations.
>
>> + struct tc_action *a, *tmp;
>> + char kind[IFNAMSIZ];
>> + u32 act_index;
>> +
>> + list_for_each_entry_safe(a, tmp, actions, list) {
>> + const struct tc_action_ops *ops = a->ops;
>> +
>> + /* Actions can be deleted concurrently
>> + * so we must save their type and id to search again
>> + * after reference is released.
>> + */
>> + strncpy(kind, a->ops->kind, sizeof(kind) - 1);
>
>This may be problematic. Why strncpy here?

This is not necessary if Vlad is going to hold module referece, ops
cannot disappear.

>
>a->ops->kind is also of size IFNAMSIZ. If a->ops->kind is actually
>IFNAMSIZ-1 long, kind here won't be NULL terminated, as kind is not
>initialized and strncpy won't add the NULL.
>
>> + act_index = a->tcfa_index;
>> +
>> + list_del(&a->list);
>> + if (tcf_action_put(a))
>> + module_put(ops->owner);
>> +
>> + /* now do the delete */
>> + ret = tcf_action_del_1(net, kind, act_index, extack);
>> + if (ret < 0)
>> + return ret;
>> + }
>> + return 0;
>> +}