Re: [Patch net v3 1/3] net_sched: get rid of tcfa_rcu

[Jiri Pirko]

Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:42:15AM CEST, j...@resnulli.us wrote:
>Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:33:30AM CEST, xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com wrote:
>>gen estimator has been rewritten in commit 1c0d32fde5bd
>>("net_sched: gen_estimator: complete rewrite of rate estimators"),
>>the caller is no longer needed to wait for a grace period.
>>So this patch gets rid of it.
>>
>>This also completely closes a race condition between action free
>>path and filter chain add/remove path for the following patch.
>>Because otherwise the nested RCU callback can't be caught by
>>rcu_barrier().
>>
>>Please see also the comments in code.
>
>Looks like this is causing a null pointer dereference bug for me, 100%
>of the time. Just add and remove any rule with action and you get:
>

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>
>Looks like you need to save owner of the module before you call
>__tcf_idr_release so you can later on use it for module_put

This patch helps:

diff --git a/net/sched/act_api.c b/net/sched/act_api.c
index fcd7dc7..de73e71 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_api.c
@@ -514,13 +514,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcf_action_exec);
 
 int tcf_action_destroy(struct list_head *actions, int bind)
 {
+       const struct tc_action_ops *ops;
        struct tc_action *a, *tmp;
        int ret = 0;
 
        list_for_each_entry_safe(a, tmp, actions, list) {
+               ops = a->ops;
                ret = __tcf_idr_release(a, bind, true);
                if (ret == ACT_P_DELETED)
-                       module_put(a->ops->owner);
+                       module_put(ops->owner);
                else if (ret < 0)
                        return ret;
        }