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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@suse.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: policy: Restructure RCU-read locking in xfrm_sk_policy_lookup
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210621082949.GX40979@gauss3.secunet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210618141101.18168-1-varad.gautam@suse.com>

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Varad Gautam wrote:
> Commit "xfrm: policy: Read seqcount outside of rcu-read side in
> xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype" [Linked] resolved a locking bug in
> xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype that causes an RCU reader-writer deadlock on
> the mutex wrapped by xfrm_policy_hash_generation on PREEMPT_RT since
> 77cc278f7b20 ("xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated
> lock").
> 
> However, xfrm_sk_policy_lookup can still reach xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype
> while holding rcu_read_lock(), as:
> xfrm_sk_policy_lookup()
>   rcu_read_lock()
>   security_xfrm_policy_lookup()
>     xfrm_policy_lookup()

Hm, I don't see that call chain. security_xfrm_policy_lookup() calls
a hook with the name xfrm_policy_lookup. The only LSM that has
registered a function to that hook is selinux. It registers
selinux_xfrm_policy_lookup() and I don't see how we can call
xfrm_policy_lookup() from there.

Did you actually trigger that bug?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-18 14:11 Varad Gautam
2021-06-21  8:29 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2021-06-21  9:11   ` Varad Gautam
2021-06-21 11:05     ` Steffen Klassert
2021-06-22 11:21       ` Steffen Klassert
2021-06-22 11:51         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-06-22 12:33           ` Steffen Klassert
2021-06-23  5:27           ` Steffen Klassert

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