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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@openvz.org, Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Subject: [PATCH][IPVS] Fix sched registration race when checking for name collision
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:10:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4753D631.8040005@openvz.org> (raw)

The register_ip_vs_scheduler() checks for the scheduler with the
same name under the read-locked __ip_vs_sched_lock, then drops,
takes it for writing and puts the scheduler in list.

This is racy, since we can have a race window between the lock
being re-locked for writing.

The fix is to search the scheduler with the given name right under
the write-locked __ip_vs_sched_lock.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c
index 1602304..4322358 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c
@@ -183,19 +183,6 @@ int register_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip_vs_scheduler *scheduler)
 	/* increase the module use count */
 	ip_vs_use_count_inc();
 
-	/*
-	 *  Make sure that the scheduler with this name doesn't exist
-	 *  in the scheduler list.
-	 */
-	sched = ip_vs_sched_getbyname(scheduler->name);
-	if (sched) {
-		ip_vs_scheduler_put(sched);
-		ip_vs_use_count_dec();
-		IP_VS_ERR("register_ip_vs_scheduler(): [%s] scheduler "
-			  "already existed in the system\n", scheduler->name);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	write_lock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock);
 
 	if (scheduler->n_list.next != &scheduler->n_list) {
@@ -207,6 +194,20 @@ int register_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip_vs_scheduler *scheduler)
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 *  Make sure that the scheduler with this name doesn't exist
+	 *  in the scheduler list.
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry(sched, &ip_vs_schedulers, n_list) {
+		if (strcmp(scheduler->name, sched->name) == 0) {
+			write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock);
+			ip_vs_use_count_dec();
+			IP_VS_ERR("register_ip_vs_scheduler(): [%s] scheduler "
+					"already existed in the system\n",
+					scheduler->name);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+	}
+	/*
 	 *	Add it into the d-linked scheduler list
 	 */
 	list_add(&scheduler->n_list, &ip_vs_schedulers);

             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-03 10:10 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-12-04  1:41 ` [PATCH][IPVS] Fix sched registration race when checking for name collision Simon Horman
2007-12-04  8:45   ` David Miller

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