From: luoxuanqiang <xuanqiang.luo@linux.dev>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: edumazet@google.com, kuniyu@google.com,
kerneljasonxing@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] inet: Avoid ehash lookup race in inet_twsk_hashdance_schedule()
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:51:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a02bf61e-bb72-41fa-b8c3-0efbd3738aeb@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924175527.4642e32a@kernel.org>
在 2025/9/25 08:55, Jakub Kicinski 写道:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:50:34 +0800xuanqiang.luo@linux.dev wrote:
>> From: Xuanqiang Luo<luoxuanqiang@kylinos.cn>
>>
>> Since ehash lookups are lockless, if another CPU is converting sk to tw
>> concurrently, fetching the newly inserted tw with tw->tw_refcnt == 0 cause
>> lookup failure.
>>
>> The call trace map is drawn as follows:
>> CPU 0 CPU 1
>> ----- -----
>> inet_twsk_hashdance_schedule()
>> spin_lock()
>> inet_twsk_add_node_rcu(tw, ...)
>> __inet_lookup_established()
>> (find tw, failure due to tw_refcnt = 0)
>> __sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu(sk)
>> refcount_set(&tw->tw_refcnt, 3)
>> spin_unlock()
>>
>> By replacing sk with tw atomically via hlist_nulls_replace_init_rcu() after
>> setting tw_refcnt, we ensure that tw is either fully initialized or not
>> visible to other CPUs, eliminating the race.
> This one doesn't build cleanly
>
> net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:116:28: warning: unused variable 'ehead' [-Wunused-variable]
> 116 | struct inet_ehash_bucket *ehead = inet_ehash_bucket(hashinfo, sk->sk_hash);
> | ^~~~~
> net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:91:13: warning: unused function 'inet_twsk_add_node_rcu' [-Wunused-function]
> 91 | static void inet_twsk_add_node_rcu(struct inet_timewait_sock *tw,
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oops, I introduced those build warnings in my changes and missed them.
Thanks for pointing this out—I'll fix them shortly.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-25 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 1:50 [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] net: Avoid ehash lookup races xuanqiang.luo
2025-09-24 1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/3] rculist: Add hlist_nulls_replace_rcu() and hlist_nulls_replace_init_rcu() xuanqiang.luo
2025-09-25 0:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-25 1:50 ` luoxuanqiang
2025-09-24 1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/3] inet: Avoid ehash lookup race in inet_ehash_insert() xuanqiang.luo
2025-09-24 1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] inet: Avoid ehash lookup race in inet_twsk_hashdance_schedule() xuanqiang.luo
2025-09-25 0:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-25 1:51 ` luoxuanqiang [this message]
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