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>