From: Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <kuba@kernel.org>, <pabeni@redhat.com>,
<fw@strlen.de>, <daniel@iogearbox.net>, <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
<zhangchangzhong@huawei.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: fix NULL pointer dereference in l3mdev_l3_rcv
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:51:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d824f621-bae1-4b79-a4c6-620aeecc1bb0@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250320133736.GR280585@kernel.org>
在 2025/3/20 21:37, Simon Horman 写道:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 10:07:03AM +0800, Wang Liang wrote:
>> 在 2025/3/18 23:02, David Ahern 写道:
>>> On 3/18/25 3:38 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 09:27:13AM +0800, Wang Liang wrote:
>>>>> When delete l3s ipvlan:
>>>>>
>>>>> ip link del link eth0 ipvlan1 type ipvlan mode l3s
>>>>>
>>>>> This may cause a null pointer dereference:
>>>>>
>>>>> Call trace:
>>>>> ip_rcv_finish+0x48/0xd0
>>>>> ip_rcv+0x5c/0x100
>>>>> __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x64/0xb0
>>>>> __netif_receive_skb+0x20/0x80
>>>>> process_backlog+0xb4/0x204
>>>>> napi_poll+0xe8/0x294
>>>>> net_rx_action+0xd8/0x22c
>>>>> __do_softirq+0x12c/0x354
>>>>>
>>>>> This is because l3mdev_l3_rcv() visit dev->l3mdev_ops after
>>>>> ipvlan_l3s_unregister() assign the dev->l3mdev_ops to NULL. The process
>>>>> like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> (CPU1) | (CPU2)
>>>>> l3mdev_l3_rcv() |
>>>>> check dev->priv_flags: |
>>>>> master = skb->dev; |
>>>>> |
>>>>> | ipvlan_l3s_unregister()
>>>>> | set dev->priv_flags
>>>>> | dev->l3mdev_ops = NULL;
>>>>> |
>>>>> visit master->l3mdev_ops |
>>>>>
>>>>> Add lock for dev->priv_flags and dev->l3mdev_ops is too expensive. Resolve
>>>>> this issue by add check for master->l3mdev_ops.
>>>> Hi Wang Liang,
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that checking master->l3mdev_ops like this is racy.
>>> vrf device leaves the l3mdev ops set; that is probably the better way to go.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Only l3s ipvlan set the dev->l3mdev_ops to NULL at present, I will delete
>> 'dev->l3mdev_ops = NULL' in ipvlan_l3s_unregister(), is that ok?
> TBH, I am somewhat unclear on the correct tear down behaviour.
> But I also understood that to be David's suggestion.
> And I think that implementing that, and posting it as v2 would
> be a good next step.
Ok. I will send a patch v2 later, please check it.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-21 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-13 1:27 Wang Liang
2025-03-18 14:38 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-18 15:02 ` David Ahern
2025-03-19 2:07 ` Wang Liang
2025-03-19 2:08 ` David Ahern
2025-03-20 13:37 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-21 8:51 ` Wang Liang [this message]
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