This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/ipoib: Fix race condition in neigh creation
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: ib-ipoib-fix-race-condition-in-neigh-creation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:19:30 CET 2018
From: Erez Shitrit erezsh@mellanox.com Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:33:15 +0200 Subject: IB/ipoib: Fix race condition in neigh creation
From: Erez Shitrit erezsh@mellanox.com
[ Upstream commit 16ba3defb8bd01a9464ba4820a487f5b196b455b ]
When using enhanced mode for IPoIB, two threads may execute xmit in parallel to two different TX queues while the target is the same. In this case, both of them will add the same neighbor to the path's neigh link list and we might see the following message:
list_add double add: new=ffff88024767a348, prev=ffff88024767a348... WARNING: lib/list_debug.c:31__list_add_valid+0x4e/0x70 ipoib_start_xmit+0x477/0x680 [ib_ipoib] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xb9/0x3e0 sch_direct_xmit+0xf9/0x250 __qdisc_run+0x176/0x5d0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1f5/0xb10 __dev_queue_xmit+0x55/0xb10
Analysis: Two SKB are scheduled to be transmitted from two cores. In ipoib_start_xmit, both gets NULL when calling ipoib_neigh_get. Two calls to neigh_add_path are made. One thread takes the spin-lock and calls ipoib_neigh_alloc which creates the neigh structure, then (after the __path_find) the neigh is added to the path's neigh link list. When the second thread enters the critical section it also calls ipoib_neigh_alloc but in this case it gets the already allocated ipoib_neigh structure, which is already linked to the path's neigh link list and adds it again to the list. Which beside of triggering the list, it creates a loop in the linked list. This loop leads to endless loop inside path_rec_completion.
Solution: Check list_empty(&neigh->list) before adding to the list. Add a similar fix in "ipoib_multicast.c::ipoib_mcast_send"
Fixes: b63b70d87741 ('IPoIB: Use a private hash table for path lookup in xmit path') Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit erezsh@mellanox.com Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe jgg@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -844,8 +844,8 @@ static int path_rec_start(struct net_dev return 0; }
-static void neigh_add_path(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *daddr, - struct net_device *dev) +static struct ipoib_neigh *neigh_add_path(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *daddr, + struct net_device *dev) { struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); struct ipoib_path *path; @@ -858,7 +858,15 @@ static void neigh_add_path(struct sk_buf spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); ++dev->stats.tx_dropped; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); - return; + return NULL; + } + + /* To avoid race condition, make sure that the + * neigh will be added only once. + */ + if (unlikely(!list_empty(&neigh->list))) { + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); + return neigh; }
path = __path_find(dev, daddr + 4); @@ -896,7 +904,7 @@ static void neigh_add_path(struct sk_buf spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); ipoib_send(dev, skb, path->ah, IPOIB_QPN(daddr)); ipoib_neigh_put(neigh); - return; + return NULL; } } else { neigh->ah = NULL; @@ -913,7 +921,7 @@ static void neigh_add_path(struct sk_buf
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); ipoib_neigh_put(neigh); - return; + return NULL;
err_path: ipoib_neigh_free(neigh); @@ -923,6 +931,8 @@ err_drop:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); ipoib_neigh_put(neigh); + + return NULL; }
static void unicast_arp_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, @@ -1028,8 +1038,9 @@ static int ipoib_start_xmit(struct sk_bu case htons(ETH_P_TIPC): neigh = ipoib_neigh_get(dev, phdr->hwaddr); if (unlikely(!neigh)) { - neigh_add_path(skb, phdr->hwaddr, dev); - return NETDEV_TX_OK; + neigh = neigh_add_path(skb, phdr->hwaddr, dev); + if (likely(!neigh)) + return NETDEV_TX_OK; } break; case htons(ETH_P_ARP): --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c @@ -775,7 +775,10 @@ void ipoib_mcast_send(struct net_device spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); if (!neigh) { neigh = ipoib_neigh_alloc(daddr, dev); - if (neigh) { + /* Make sure that the neigh will be added only + * once to mcast list. + */ + if (neigh && list_empty(&neigh->list)) { kref_get(&mcast->ah->ref); neigh->ah = mcast->ah; list_add_tail(&neigh->list, &mcast->neigh_list);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from erezsh@mellanox.com are
queue-4.4/ib-ipoib-fix-race-condition-in-neigh-creation.patch