From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fw@strlen.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: check that cached bundle is still valid
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:26:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170807.142628.1235964040083698243.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170806081907.5267-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:19:07 +0200
> Quoting Ilan Tayari:
> 1. Set up a host-to-host IPSec tunnel (or transport, doesn't matter)
> 2. Ping over IPSec, or do something to populate the pcpu cache
> 3. Join a MC group, then leave MC group
> 4. Try to ping again using same CPU as before -> traffic
> doesn't egress the machine at all
>
> Ilan debugged the problem down to the fact that one of the path dsts
> devices point to lo due to earlier dst_dev_put().
> In this case, dst is marked as DEAD and we cannot reuse the bundle.
>
> The cache only asserted that the requested policy and that of the cached
> bundle match, but its not enough - also verify the path is still valid.
>
> Fixes: ec30d78c14a813 ("xfrm: add xdst pcpu cache")
> Reported-by: Ayham Masood <ayhamm@mellanox.com>
> Tested-by: Ilan Tayari <ilant@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Since this regression is from the flow cache removal that went directly
into my tree, I'll apply this directly to net-next as well.
Thanks Florian.
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2017-08-06 8:19 [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: check that cached bundle is still valid Florian Westphal
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