net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog
authorJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Thu, 9 Jul 2015 06:59:10 +0000 (09:59 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:36:20 +0000 (11:36 +0200)
commit69f02461e4c79aec12c66ae657b3ded6f7a9c94c
tree8e320d893f96695f20a76326028c0519bfc26125
parent2095ab2456da766174cda8bc105d7a7b1bc70e16
net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog

[ Upstream commit 2c17d27c36dcce2b6bf689f41a46b9e909877c21 ]

Incoming packet should be either in backlog queue or
in RCU read-side section. Otherwise, the final sequence of
flush_backlog() and synchronize_net() may miss packets
that can run without device reference:

CPU 1                  CPU 2
                       skb->dev: no reference
                       process_backlog:__skb_dequeue
                       process_backlog:local_irq_enable

on_each_cpu for
flush_backlog =>       IPI(hardirq): flush_backlog
                       - packet not found in backlog

                       CPU delayed ...
synchronize_net
- no ongoing RCU
read-side sections

netdev_run_todo,
rcu_barrier: no
ongoing callbacks
                       __netif_receive_skb_core:rcu_read_lock
                       - too late
free dev
                       process packet for freed dev

Fixes: 6e583ce5242f ("net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue")
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/dev.c