linux/net/core
David Barroso b560f03ddf neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit()
neigh_xmit() expects to be called inside an RCU-bh read side critical
section, and while one of its two current callers gets this right, the
other one doesn't.

More specifically, neigh_xmit() has two callers, mpls_forward() and
mpls_output(), and while both callers call neigh_xmit() under
rcu_read_lock(), this provides sufficient protection for neigh_xmit()
only in the case of mpls_forward(), as that is always called from
softirq context and therefore doesn't need explicit BH protection,
while mpls_output() can be called from process context with softirqs
enabled.

When mpls_output() is called from process context, with softirqs
enabled, we can be preempted by a softirq at any time, and RCU-bh
considers the completion of a softirq as signaling the end of any
pending read-side critical sections, so if we do get a softirq
while we are in the part of neigh_xmit() that expects to be run inside
an RCU-bh read side critical section, we can end up with an unexpected
RCU grace period running right in the middle of that critical section,
making things go boom.

This patch fixes this impedance mismatch in the callee, by making
neigh_xmit() always take rcu_read_{,un}lock_bh() around the code that
expects to be treated as an RCU-bh read side critical section, as this
seems a safer option than fixing it in the callers.

Fixes: 4fd3d7d9e8 ("neigh: Add helper function neigh_xmit")
Signed-off-by: David Barroso <dbarroso@fastly.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <lbuytenhek@fastly.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-29 07:58:28 -04:00
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datagram.c udp: enable MSG_PEEK at non-zero offset 2016-04-05 16:29:37 -04:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: fix spelling for synchronized 2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00
dev_ioctl.c dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x 2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00
dev.c net: also make sch_handle_egress() drop monitor ready 2016-05-16 14:02:44 -04:00
devlink.c devlink: implement shared buffer occupancy monitoring interface 2016-04-14 16:22:03 -04:00
drop_monitor.c net: Replace get_cpu_var through this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:47 -04:00
dst_cache.c net: dst_cache_per_cpu_dst_set() can be static 2016-03-18 17:45:08 -04:00
dst.c net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel 2016-02-16 20:21:48 -05:00
ethtool.c net: define gso types for IPx over IPv4 and IPv6 2016-05-20 18:03:15 -04:00
fib_rules.c libnl: nla_put_be64(): align on a 64-bit area 2016-04-23 20:13:24 -04:00
filter.c bpf: fix matching of data/data_end in verifier 2016-06-15 23:37:54 -07:00
flow_dissector.c net/flow_dissector: Make dissector_uses_key() and skb_flow_dissector_target() public 2016-03-10 16:24:02 -05:00
flow.c flowcache: Avoid OOM condition under preasure 2016-03-17 10:28:42 +01:00
gen_estimator.c net: sched: Add description for cpu_bstats argument 2016-03-20 16:48:07 -04:00
gen_stats.c net_sched: add missing paddattr description 2016-06-08 11:17:39 -07:00
hwbm.c net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case 2016-05-25 12:35:09 -07:00
link_watch.c dev: introduce dev_get_iflink() 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
lwtunnel.c lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules 2016-02-21 22:00:28 -05:00
Makefile net: add a hardware buffer management helper API 2016-03-14 12:19:46 -04:00
neighbour.c neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit() 2016-06-29 07:58:28 -04:00
net_namespace.c netns: make nsid_lock per net 2015-05-17 23:41:11 -04:00
net-procfs.c net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support 2016-04-26 15:53:05 -04:00
net-sysfs.c net-sysfs: fix missing <linux/of_net.h> 2016-06-08 00:37:58 -07:00
net-sysfs.h net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init 2014-01-05 20:27:54 -05:00
net-traces.c net: IPv6 fib lookup tracepoint 2015-11-22 11:54:10 -05:00
netclassid_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
netevent.c netevent: remove automatic variable in register_netevent_notifier() 2015-05-31 00:03:21 -07:00
netpoll.c Revert "netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup()" 2016-04-05 19:34:44 -04:00
netprio_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
pktgen.c net: pktgen: Call destroy_hrtimer_on_stack() 2016-05-31 11:44:08 -07:00
ptp_classifier.c ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask 2015-11-03 11:08:22 -05:00
request_sock.c tcp: restore fastopen operations 2015-10-05 03:19:06 -07:00
rtnetlink.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-05-09 15:59:24 -04:00
scm.c unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct 2016-02-08 10:30:42 -05:00
secure_seq.c net: remove a sparse error in secure_dccpv6_sequence_number() 2015-05-25 22:55:37 -04:00
skbuff.c skbuff: remove unused variable `doff' 2016-05-10 16:05:12 -04:00
sock_diag.c sock_diag: align nlattr properly when needed 2016-04-26 12:00:48 -04:00
sock_reuseport.c soreuseport: fix NULL ptr dereference SO_REUSEPORT after bind 2016-01-19 14:44:23 -05:00
sock.c net: add __sock_wfree() helper 2016-05-03 16:02:36 -04:00
stream.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-12-03 21:09:12 -05:00
sysctl_net_core.c bpf: add generic constant blinding for use in jits 2016-05-16 13:49:32 -04:00
timestamping.c net: skb_defer_rx_timestamp should check for phydev before setting up classify 2015-07-09 14:17:15 -07:00
tso.c net: tso: add support for IPv6 2015-10-26 22:24:22 -07:00
utils.c net: move net_get_random_once to lib 2015-10-08 05:26:35 -07:00