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Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:07 AM, nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com> wrote:
>>> From: l00219569 <lisimin@huawei.com>
>>>
>>> If fanout_add is preempted after running po-> fanout = match
>>> and before running __fanout_link,
>>> it will cause BUG_ON when __unregister_prot_hook call __fanout_unlink
>>>
>>> so, we need add mutex_lock(&fanout_mutex) to __unregister_prot_hook
>>
>> The packet socket code has no shortage of locks, so there are many
>> ways to avoid the race condition between fanout_add and packet_set_ring.
>>
>> Another option would be to lock the socket when calling fanout_add:
>>
>>     -               return fanout_add(sk, val & 0xffff, val >> 16);
>>     +               lock_sock(sk);
>>     +               ret = fanout_add(sk, val & 0xffff, val >> 16);
>>     +               release_sock(sk);
>>     +               return ret;
>>
>
> I don't think this is an option, because __unregister_prot_hook()
> can be called without lock_sock(), for example in packet_notifier().
>
>
>> But, for consistency, and to be able to continue to make sense of the
>> locking policy, we should use the most appropriate lock. This
>> is po->bind_lock, as it ensures atomicity between testing whether
>> a protocol hook is active through po->running and the actual existence
>> of that hook on the protocol hook list.
>
> Yeah, register_prot_hook() and unregister_prot_hook() already assume
> bind_lock.
>
> [...]
>
>>>  out:
>>>         mutex_unlock(&fanout_mutex);
>>> +       spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
>>
>> This function can call kzalloc with GFP_KERNEL, which may sleep. It is
>> not correct to sleep while holding a spinlock. Which is why I take the lock
>> later and test po->running again.
>
>
> Right, no need to mention the mutex_unlock() before the spin_unlock()
> is clearly wrong.
>
>
>>
>> I will clean up that patch and send it for review.
>
> How about the following patch?
>
>
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index c26172995511..f5c696a548ed 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -1754,10 +1754,14 @@ static int fanout_add(struct sock *sk, u16 id,
> u16 type_flags)
>             match->prot_hook.dev == po->prot_hook.dev) {
>                 err = -ENOSPC;
>                 if (refcount_read(&match->sk_ref) < PACKET_FANOUT_MAX) {
> +                       spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
>                         __dev_remove_pack(&po->prot_hook);
> -                       po->fanout = match;
> -                       refcount_set(&match->sk_ref,
> refcount_read(&match->sk_ref) + 1);
> -                       __fanout_link(sk, po);
> +                       if (po->running) {
> +                               refcount_set(&match->sk_ref,
> refcount_read(&match->sk_ref) + 1);
> +                               po->fanout = match;
> +                               __fanout_link(sk, po);
> +                       }
> +                       spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
>                         err = 0;
>                 }
>         }

In case of failure we also need to unlink and free match. I
sent the following:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/813945/

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[PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com> - 2017-09-14 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 16:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix race condition between fanout_add and __unregister_prot_hook Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 19:50 +0200

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