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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+30209ea299c09d8785c9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	ddstreet@ieee.org, dvyukov@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Delete uncached routes upon unregistration of loopback device.
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 11:56:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6f770a7-17af-d51f-3ffb-4edba9b28101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519ea12b-4c24-9e8e-c5eb-ca02c9c7d264@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>



On 5/4/19 10:52 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> syzbot is hitting infinite loop when a loopback device in a namespace is
> unregistered [1]. This is because rt_flush_dev() is moving the refcount of
> "any device to unregister" to "a loopback device in that namespace" but
> nobody can drop the refcount moved from non loopback devices when the
> loopback device in that namespace is unregistered.
> 
> This behavior was introduced by commit caacf05e5ad1abf0 ("ipv4: Properly
> purge netdev references on uncached routes.") but there is no description
> why we have to temporarily move the refcount to "a loopback device in that
> namespace" and why it is safe to do so, for rt_flush_dev() becomes a no-op
> when "a loopback device in that namespace" is about to be unregistered.
> 
> Since I don't know the reason, this patch breaks the infinite loop by
> deleting the uncached route (which eventually drops the refcount via
> dst_destroy()) when "a loopback device in that namespace" is unregistered
> rather than when "non-loopback devices in that namespace" is unregistered.

Well, you have not fixed a bug, you simply made sure that whatever cpu is using the
routes you forcibly deleted is going to crash the host very soon (use-after-frees have
undefined behavior, but KASAN should crash most of the times)

Please do not send patches like that with a huge CC list, keep networking patches
to netdev mailing list.

Mahesh has an alternative patch, adding a fake device that can not be dismantled
to make sure we fully intercept skbs sent through a dead route, instead of relying
on loopback dropping them later at some point.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-04 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-15 18:50 unregister_netdevice: waiting for DEV to become free (2) syzbot
2018-08-15 20:28 ` syzbot
2018-08-15 20:41   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-08-20  4:31 ` syzbot
2018-08-20 12:55   ` Julian Anastasov
2018-08-21  5:40     ` Cong Wang
2018-08-22  4:11       ` Julian Anastasov
2019-04-15 13:36     ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-15 15:35       ` David Ahern
2019-04-21 20:41         ` Stephen Suryaputra
2019-04-22 14:58           ` David Ahern
2019-04-22 16:04             ` Eric Dumazet
2019-04-22 16:09               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-04-16 14:00       ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-26 13:43         ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-27 17:16           ` David Ahern
2019-04-27 22:33             ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-27 23:52               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-04-28  4:22                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-28 15:04                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-04-29 18:34                   ` David Ahern
2019-04-29 18:43                     ` David Ahern
2019-05-01 13:38                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-05-01 14:52                         ` David Ahern
2019-05-01 16:16                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-05-04 14:52                             ` [PATCH] ipv4: Delete uncached routes upon unregistration of loopback device Tetsuo Handa
2019-05-04 15:56                               ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-05-04 17:09                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-05-04 17:24                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-05-04 20:13                               ` Julian Anastasov
2019-11-28  9:56     ` unregister_netdevice: waiting for DEV to become free (2) Tetsuo Handa
2019-11-29  5:54       ` Lukas Bulwahn
2019-11-29  6:51       ` Jouni Högander
2019-12-05 10:00       ` Jouni Högander
2019-12-05 11:00         ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-16 11:12           ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-17  7:08             ` Jouni Högander
2019-10-11 10:14   ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-10-11 15:12     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 10:34       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-15  9:43         ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-11-21 11:36           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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