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* [75/82] net: add a recursion limit in xmit path
@ 2010-11-19 21:56 Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2010-11-19 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, stable
  Cc: stable-review, torvalds, akpm, alan, Eric Dumazet, David S. Miller

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commits 745e20f1b626b1be4b100af5d4bf7b3439392f8f and
  11a766ce915fc9f8663714eac6d59239388534ea ]

As tunnel devices are going to be lockless, we need to make sure a
misconfigured machine wont enter an infinite loop.

Add a percpu variable, and limit to three the number of stacked xmits.

Reported-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2110,6 +2110,9 @@ static inline int skb_needs_linearize(st
 					      illegal_highdma(dev, skb)));
 }
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, xmit_recursion);
+#define RECURSION_LIMIT 10
+
 /**
  *	dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
  *	@skb: buffer to transmit
@@ -2194,10 +2197,15 @@ gso:
 
 		if (txq->xmit_lock_owner != cpu) {
 
+			if (__this_cpu_read(xmit_recursion) > RECURSION_LIMIT)
+				goto recursion_alert;
+
 			HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, cpu);
 
 			if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)) {
+				__this_cpu_inc(xmit_recursion);
 				rc = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq);
+				__this_cpu_dec(xmit_recursion);
 				if (dev_xmit_complete(rc)) {
 					HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
 					goto out;
@@ -2209,7 +2217,9 @@ gso:
 				       "queue packet!\n", dev->name);
 		} else {
 			/* Recursion is detected! It is possible,
-			 * unfortunately */
+			 * unfortunately
+			 */
+recursion_alert:
 			if (net_ratelimit())
 				printk(KERN_CRIT "Dead loop on virtual device "
 				       "%s, fix it urgently!\n", dev->name);



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