From: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
Subject: [PATCH net v8 1/2] ipv6: flowlabel: take ip6_fl_lock across mem_check and fl_intern
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 16:24:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260506082416.2259567-2-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260506082416.2259567-1-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
From: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
mem_check() in net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c reads fl_size without
holding ip6_fl_lock. fl_intern() takes the lock immediately
afterwards. The two checks therefore race against concurrent
fl_intern, ip6_fl_gc and ip6_fl_purge writers, which makes the
mem_check budget check approximate.
Move spin_lock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock) and the matching unlock from
fl_intern() into its only caller ipv6_flowlabel_get(). The
mem_check() call now runs under the same critical section as the
fl_intern() insert, so the budget check is exact.
With all writers and the read of fl_size under ip6_fl_lock,
convert fl_size from atomic_t to plain int. The four sites that
update or read fl_size are fl_intern (insert path), ip6_fl_gc
(garbage collector, the !sched check and the per-entry decrement),
ip6_fl_purge (per-netns purge), and mem_check (budget check), and
all four now run under ip6_fl_lock.
This is a prerequisite for adding a per-netns budget alongside
fl_size. The follow-up patch adds netns_ipv6::flowlabel_count and
folds it into mem_check().
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyi.xie@ntu.edu.sg>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index c92f98c6f..a89746431 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
#define FL_HASH_MASK 255
#define FL_HASH(l) (ntohl(l)&FL_HASH_MASK)
-static atomic_t fl_size = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static int fl_size;
static struct ip6_flowlabel __rcu *fl_ht[FL_HASH_MASK+1];
static void ip6_fl_gc(struct timer_list *unused);
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static void ip6_fl_gc(struct timer_list *unused)
if (time_after_eq(now, ttd)) {
*flp = fl->next;
fl_free(fl);
- atomic_dec(&fl_size);
+ fl_size--;
continue;
}
if (!sched || time_before(ttd, sched))
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static void ip6_fl_gc(struct timer_list *unused)
flp = &fl->next;
}
}
- if (!sched && atomic_read(&fl_size))
+ if (!sched && fl_size)
sched = now + FL_MAX_LINGER;
if (sched) {
mod_timer(&ip6_fl_gc_timer, sched);
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static void __net_exit ip6_fl_purge(struct net *net)
atomic_read(&fl->users) == 0) {
*flp = fl->next;
fl_free(fl);
- atomic_dec(&fl_size);
+ fl_size--;
continue;
}
flp = &fl->next;
@@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_intern(struct net *net,
{
struct ip6_flowlabel *lfl;
+ lockdep_assert_held(&ip6_fl_lock);
+
fl->label = label & IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK;
- rcu_read_lock();
- spin_lock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock);
if (label == 0) {
for (;;) {
fl->label = htonl(get_random_u32())&IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK;
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_intern(struct net *net,
lfl = __fl_lookup(net, fl->label);
if (lfl) {
atomic_inc(&lfl->users);
- spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
return lfl;
}
}
@@ -244,9 +242,7 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_intern(struct net *net,
fl->lastuse = jiffies;
fl->next = fl_ht[FL_HASH(fl->label)];
rcu_assign_pointer(fl_ht[FL_HASH(fl->label)], fl);
- atomic_inc(&fl_size);
- spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ fl_size++;
return NULL;
}
@@ -464,10 +460,14 @@ fl_create(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct in6_flowlabel_req *freq,
static int mem_check(struct sock *sk)
{
- int room = FL_MAX_SIZE - atomic_read(&fl_size);
+ int room;
struct ipv6_fl_socklist *sfl;
int count = 0;
+ lockdep_assert_held(&ip6_fl_lock);
+
+ room = FL_MAX_SIZE - fl_size;
+
if (room > FL_MAX_SIZE - FL_MAX_PER_SOCK)
return 0;
@@ -692,11 +692,19 @@ static int ipv6_flowlabel_get(struct sock *sk, struct in6_flowlabel_req *freq,
if (!sfl1)
goto done;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ spin_lock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock);
err = mem_check(sk);
+ if (err == 0)
+ fl1 = fl_intern(net, fl, freq->flr_label);
+ else
+ fl1 = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
if (err != 0)
goto done;
- fl1 = fl_intern(net, fl, freq->flr_label);
if (fl1)
goto recheck;
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-06 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-06 8:24 [PATCH net v8 0/2] ipv6: flowlabel: per-netns budget for unprivileged callers Maoyi Xie
2026-05-06 8:24 ` Maoyi Xie [this message]
2026-05-06 8:24 ` [PATCH net v8 2/2] ipv6: flowlabel: enforce per-netns limit " Maoyi Xie
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