Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: do not call ->conn_alloc with GFP_KERNEL

[Sowmini Varadhan]

On (02/13/18 12:04), David Miller wrote:
> 
> Let's not over-engineer this.  For one thing, whatever allocation bits
> came down from the callers, we are going to lose here.

Ok, I was wondering how much of the sk_allocation we want to keep in
the future, so I did this admittedly weird thing. I'll change it
to the obvious and submit v3.

--Sowmini

Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: do not call ->conn_alloc with GFP_KERNEL

[David Miller]

From: Sowmini Varadhan 
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:30:38 -0800

> diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
> index 94e190f..d0f5889 100644
> --- a/net/rds/connection.c
> +++ b/net/rds/connection.c
> @@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ static void __rds_conn_path_init(struct rds_connection 
> *conn,
>   conn->c_path[i].cp_index = i;
>   }
>   rcu_read_lock();
> + gfp &= ~GFP_KERNEL;
> + gfp |= GFP_ATOMIC;
>   if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
>   ret = -ENETDOWN;
>   else

I'd never seen this kind of gfp masking before, so I did a grep around
and the only cases I saw of this kind of usage were for things like
GFP_DMA and such.

I could not find one case that did it to convert a sleeping into a non-
sleeping GFP mask.

Let's not over-engineer this.  For one thing, whatever allocation bits
came down from the callers, we are going to lose here.

So just pass straight GFP_ATOMIC into the routines below here instead
of the 'gfp' variable.

Thanks.

[PATCH net-next] rds: do not call ->conn_alloc with GFP_KERNEL

[Sowmini Varadhan]

Commit ebeeb1ad9b8a ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to synchronize
netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management") adds an
rcu read critical section to __rds_conn_create. The memory allocations
in that critcal section need to use GFP_ATOMIC to avoid sleeping.

This patch was verified with syzkaller reproducer.

Reported-by: syzbot+a0564419941aaae3f...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan 
Fixes: ebeeb1ad9b8a ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to synchronize
netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management")
---
 net/rds/connection.c |2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 94e190f..d0f5889 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ static void __rds_conn_path_init(struct rds_connection 
*conn,
conn->c_path[i].cp_index = i;
}
rcu_read_lock();
+   gfp &= ~GFP_KERNEL;
+   gfp |= GFP_ATOMIC;
if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
ret = -ENETDOWN;
else
-- 
1.7.1