Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix panic in netprio_cgroup

Eric Dumazet
2012-07-05T08:43:39Z

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 16:31 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> we set max_prioidx to the first zero bit index of prioidx_map in
> function get_prioidx.
>
> So when we delete the low index netprio cgroup and adding a new
> netprio cgroup again,the max_prioidx will be set to the low index.
>
> when we set the high index cgroup's net_prio.ifpriomap,the function
> write_priomap will call update_netdev_tables to alloc memory which
> size is sizeof(struct netprio_map) + sizeof(u32) * (max_prioidx + 1),
> so the size of array that map->priomap point to is max_prioidx +1,
> which is low than what we actually need.
>
> fix this by adding check in get_prioidx,only set max_prioidx when
> max_prioidx low than the new prioidx.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> net/core/netprio_cgroup.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> index 5b8aa2f..586f7d9 100644
> --- a/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> +++ b/net/core/netprio_cgroup.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ static int get_prioidx(u32 *prio)
> }
> set_bit(prioidx, prioidx_map);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prioidx_map_lock, flags);
> - atomic_set(&max_prioidx, prioidx);
> + if (atomic_read(&max_prioidx) < prioidx)
> + atomic_set(&max_prioidx, prioidx);
> *prio = prioidx;
> return 0;
> }

This is still racy.

Please do this before the
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prioidx_map_lock, flags);