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authorJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>2015-06-16 22:56:39 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-06-21 09:43:40 -0700
commit2c51a97f76d20ebf1f50fef908b986cb051fdff9 (patch)
treedb087ec45b63ad4d7b1530ac01d4bb37f5148b2f /drivers
parentf98f4514d07871da7a113dd9e3e330743fd70ae4 (diff)
neigh: do not modify unlinked entries
The lockless lookups can return entry that is unlinked. Sometimes they get reference before last neigh_cleanup_and_release, sometimes they do not need reference. Later, any modification attempts may result in the following problems: 1. entry is not destroyed immediately because neigh_update can start the timer for dead entry, eg. on change to NUD_REACHABLE state. As result, entry lives for some time but is invisible and out of control. 2. __neigh_event_send can run in parallel with neigh_destroy while refcnt=0 but if timer is started and expired refcnt can reach 0 for second time leading to second neigh_destroy and possible crash. Thanks to Eric Dumazet and Ying Xue for their work and analyze on the __neigh_event_send change. Fixes: 767e97e1e0db ("neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour") Fixes: a263b3093641 ("ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path.") Fixes: 6fd6ce2056de ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in ip6_finish_output2().") Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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