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authorJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>2014-10-05 21:28:52 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-06 18:02:33 -0400
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net: sched: do not use tcf_proto 'tp' argument from call_rcu
Using the tcf_proto pointer 'tp' from inside the classifiers callback is not valid because it may have been cleaned up by another call_rcu occuring on another CPU. 'tp' is currently being used by tcf_unbind_filter() in this patch we move instances of tcf_unbind_filter outside of the call_rcu() context. This is safe to do because any running schedulers will either read the valid class field or it will be zeroed. And all schedulers today when the class is 0 do a lookup using the same call used by the tcf_exts_bind(). So even if we have a running classifier hit the null class pointer it will do a lookup and get to the same result. This is particularly fragile at the moment because the only way to verify this is to audit the schedulers call sites. Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangconf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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