net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast forwarding
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:45:22 +0000 (02:45 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:08:16 +0000 (11:08 -0800)
[ Upstream commit 95f4a45de1a0f172b35451fc52283290adb21f6e ]

Bob Falken reported that after 4G packets, multicast forwarding stopped
working. This was because of a rule reference counter overflow which
freed the rule as soon as the overflow happend.

This patch solves this by adding the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag to
fib_rules_lookup calls. This is safe even from non-rcu locked sections
as in this case the flag only implies not taking a reference to the rule,
which we don't need at all.

Rules only hold references to the namespace, which are guaranteed to be
available during the call of the non-rcu protected function reg_vif_xmit
because of the interface reference which itself holds a reference to
the net namespace.

Fixes: f0ad0860d01e47 ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables")
Fixes: d1db275dd3f6e4 ("ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables")
Reported-by: Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@gmx.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/ipmr.c
net/ipv6/ip6mr.c

index 2c581da1fcab2656054832755a78c12ddc9033e1..7dbad6835843d7edd59c09ff24ca8d5b3bba33d3 100644 (file)
@@ -157,9 +157,12 @@ static struct mr_table *ipmr_get_table(struct net *net, u32 id)
 static int ipmr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *flp4,
                           struct mr_table **mrt)
 {
-       struct ipmr_result res;
-       struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
        int err;
+       struct ipmr_result res;
+       struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+               .result = &res,
+               .flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+       };
 
        err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv4.mr_rules_ops,
                               flowi4_to_flowi(flp4), 0, &arg);
index 4b421249532f272e0a6a9e91488e462d0a6f54ab..9f44ebc17759190446c83f216212e2465bcf1e83 100644 (file)
@@ -141,9 +141,12 @@ static struct mr6_table *ip6mr_get_table(struct net *net, u32 id)
 static int ip6mr_fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi6 *flp6,
                            struct mr6_table **mrt)
 {
-       struct ip6mr_result res;
-       struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .result = &res, };
        int err;
+       struct ip6mr_result res;
+       struct fib_lookup_arg arg = {
+               .result = &res,
+               .flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF,
+       };
 
        err = fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv6.mr6_rules_ops,
                               flowi6_to_flowi(flp6), 0, &arg);