[ofa-general] [PATCH for-2.6.22] IB/ipoib: fix to_ipoib_neigh access race

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu May 24 06:11:54 PDT 2007


hard_start_xmit dereferences to_ipoib_neigh when only tx_lock is taken.  This
would only be safe if all calls that modify *to_ipoib_neigh take tx_lock too.
Currently this is not always true for ipoib_neigh_free and path_rec_completion,
which results in memory corruption.  Fix this race, making sure
path_rec_completion and ipoib_neigh_free are always called under
tx_lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at dev.mellanox.co.il>

---

The following works fine for me here. Pls consider for 2.6.22.

ipoib_main.c      |   42 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------
ipoib_multicast.c |    6 ++++--
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2007-05-22 01:46:54.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2007-05-23 22:45:18.000000000 +0300
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ static void path_free(struct net_device 
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&path->queue)))
 		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(neigh, tn, &path->neigh_list, list) {
 		/*
@@ -277,7 +278,8 @@ static void path_free(struct net_device 
 		ipoib_neigh_free(dev, neigh);
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
 
 	if (path->ah)
 		ipoib_put_ah(path->ah);
@@ -401,7 +403,8 @@ static void path_rec_completion(int stat
 			ah = ipoib_create_ah(dev, priv->pd, &av);
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 
 	path->ah = ah;
 
@@ -442,7 +445,8 @@ static void path_rec_completion(int stat
 	path->query = NULL;
 	complete(&path->done);
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
 
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&skqueue))) {
 		skb->dev = dev;
@@ -614,32 +618,16 @@ static void unicast_arp_send(struct sk_b
 	path = __path_find(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4);
 	if (!path) {
 		path = path_rec_create(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4);
-		if (path) {
-			/* put pseudoheader back on for next time */
-			skb_push(skb, sizeof *phdr);
-			__skb_queue_tail(&path->queue, skb);
-
-			if (path_rec_start(dev, path)) {
-				spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
-				path_free(dev, path);
-				return;
-			} else
-				__path_add(dev, path);
-		} else {
-			++priv->stats.tx_dropped;
-			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
-		}
-
-		spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
-		return;
+		if (path)
+			__path_add(dev, path);
 	}
 
-	if (path->ah) {
+	if (path && path->ah) {
 		ipoib_dbg(priv, "Send unicast ARP to %04x\n",
 			  be16_to_cpu(path->pathrec.dlid));
 
 		ipoib_send(dev, skb, path->ah, IPOIB_QPN(phdr->hwaddr));
-	} else if ((path->query || !path_rec_start(dev, path)) &&
+	} else if (path && (path->query || !path_rec_start(dev, path)) &&
 		   skb_queue_len(&path->queue) < IPOIB_MAX_PATH_REC_QUEUE) {
 		/* put pseudoheader back on for next time */
 		skb_push(skb, sizeof *phdr);
@@ -822,7 +810,8 @@ static void ipoib_neigh_cleanup(struct n
 		  IPOIB_QPN(n->ha),
 		  IPOIB_GID_RAW_ARG(n->ha + 4));
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 
 	neigh = *to_ipoib_neigh(n);
 	if (neigh) {
@@ -832,7 +821,8 @@ static void ipoib_neigh_cleanup(struct n
 		ipoib_neigh_free(n->dev, neigh);
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
 
 	if (ah)
 		ipoib_put_ah(ah);
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c	2007-05-22 01:46:54.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c	2007-05-23 21:38:28.000000000 +0300
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ static void ipoib_mcast_free(struct ipoi
 			"deleting multicast group " IPOIB_GID_FMT "\n",
 			IPOIB_GID_ARG(mcast->mcmember.mgid));
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(neigh, tmp, &mcast->neigh_list, list) {
 		/*
@@ -114,7 +115,8 @@ static void ipoib_mcast_free(struct ipoi
 		ipoib_neigh_free(dev, neigh);
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->tx_lock, flags);
 
 	if (mcast->ah)
 		ipoib_put_ah(mcast->ah);

-- 
MST



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