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neigh: do not modify unlinked entries
authorJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:56:39 +0000 (22:56 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:43:40 +0000 (09:43 -0700)
commit2c51a97f76d20ebf1f50fef908b986cb051fdff9
treedb087ec45b63ad4d7b1530ac01d4bb37f5148b2f
parentf98f4514d07871da7a113dd9e3e330743fd70ae4
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>
net/core/neighbour.c