Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: sched: extend lifetime of new action in replace mode

[Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:35:12PM IST, Vlad Buslov wrote:
> it seems that there are two ways actions are overwritten/deleted:
>
> 1. Directly through action API, which is still serialized by rtnl lock.
>
> 2. Classifier API, which doesn't use rtnl lock anymore and can execute
> concurrently.
>
> Actions created by path 2 also have their bind count incremented which
> prevents them from being deleted by path 1 and cls API can only deleted
> them together with classifier that points to them.
>
> [...]
> So, what happens here is actions were 'deleted' concurrently (their
> tcfa_refcnt decremented by 1)? tcf_action_put_many() will decrement
> refcnt again, it will reach 0, actions get actually deleted and
> tcf_exts_validate() returns with non-error code, but exts->actions
> pointing to freed memory? Doesn't look like the patches fixes the
> described issue, unless I'm missing something.
>

Thanks for the review and comments.

You are absolutely right. This patch was totally broken. Your feedback however
was quite helpful in understanding the code. I sent a v2, please lmk if it's
correct (also with a hopefully thorough description of the problem & solution).

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Kartikeya