Re: [PATCH net 2/9] mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix race during rehash delayed work

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> 
> The purpose of the rehash delayed work is to reduce the number of masks
> (eRPs) used by an ACL region as the eRP bank is a global and limited
> resource.
> 
> This is done in three steps:
> 
> 1. Creating a new set of masks and a new ACL region which will use the
>    new masks and to which the existing filters will be migrated to. The
>    new region is assigned to 'vregion->region' and the region from which
>    the filters are migrated from is assigned to 'vregion->region2'.
> 
> 2. Migrating all the filters from the old region to the new region.
> 
> 3. Destroying the old region and setting 'vregion->region2' to NULL.
> 
> Only the second steps is performed under the 'vregion->lock' mutex
> although its comments says that among other things it "Protects
> consistency of region, region2 pointers".
> 
> This is problematic as the first step can race with filter insertion
> from user space that uses 'vregion->region', but under the mutex.
> 
> Fix by holding the mutex across the entirety of the delayed work and not
> only during the second step.
> 
> Fixes: 2bffc5322fd8 ("mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Don't take mutex in mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work()")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> Tested-by: Alexander Zubkov <green@qrator.net>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>