From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: frag, fix race conditions in LRU list maintenance Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 13:36:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130505.133642.523571665638952150.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130505145622.9351.86587.stgit@zurg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, fw@strlen.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, brouer@redhat.com To: khlebnikov@openvz.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130505145622.9351.86587.stgit@zurg> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 18:56:22 +0400 > This patch fixes race between inet_frag_lru_move() and inet_frag_lru_add() > which was introduced in commit 3ef0eb0db4bf92c6d2510fe5c4dc51852746f206 > ("net: frag, move LRU list maintenance outside of rwlock") > > One cpu already added new fragment queue into hash but not into LRU. > Other cpu found it in hash and tries to move it to the end of LRU. > This leads to NULL pointer dereference inside of list_move_tail(). > > Another possible race condition is between inet_frag_lru_move() and > inet_frag_lru_del(): move can happens after deletion. > > This patch initializes LRU list head before adding fragment into hash and > inet_frag_lru_move() doesn't touches it if it's empty. > > I saw this kernel oops two times in a couple of days. ... > Oops happened on this path: > ip_defrag() -> ip_frag_queue() -> inet_frag_lru_move() -> list_move_tail() -> __list_del_entry() > > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov This looks good to me, Jesper and co. please review.