From 5018c59607a511cdee743b629c76206d9c9e6d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Wang Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:03:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: fix race condition between route lookup and invalidation Jesse and Ido reported the following race condition: - Received packet A is forwarded and cached dst entry is taken from the nexthop ('nhc->nhc_rth_input'). Calls skb_dst_set() - Given Jesse has busy routers ("ingesting full BGP routing tables from multiple ISPs"), route is added / deleted and rt_cache_flush() is called - Received packet B tries to use the same cached dst entry from t0, but rt_cache_valid() is no longer true and it is replaced in rt_cache_route() by the newer one. This calls dst_dev_put() on the original dst entry which assigns the blackhole netdev to 'dst->dev' - dst_input(skb) is called on packet A and it is dropped due to 'dst->dev' being the blackhole netdev There are 2 issues in the v4 routing code: 1. A per-netns counter is used to do the validation of the route. That means whenever a route is changed in the netns, users of all routes in the netns needs to redo lookup. v6 has an implementation of only updating fn_sernum for routes that are affected. 2. When rt_cache_valid() returns false, rt_cache_route() is called to throw away the current cache, and create a new one. This seems unnecessary because as long as this route does not change, the route cache does not need to be recreated. To fully solve the above 2 issues, it probably needs quite some code changes and requires careful testing, and does not suite for net branch. So this patch only tries to add the deleted cached rt into the uncached list, so user could still be able to use it to receive packets until it's done. Fixes: 95c47f9cf5e0 ("ipv4: call dst_dev_put() properly") Signed-off-by: Wei Wang Reported-by: Ido Schimmel Reported-by: Jesse Hathaway Tested-by: Jesse Hathaway Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index 5bc172abd143..621f83434b24 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ static bool rt_cache_route(struct fib_nh_common *nhc, struct rtable *rt) prev = cmpxchg(p, orig, rt); if (prev == orig) { if (orig) { - dst_dev_put(&orig->dst); + rt_add_uncached_list(orig); dst_release(&orig->dst); } } else {