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Re: [PATCH net] ipvs: fix oops in ip_vs_dst_event on rmmod

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipvs: fix oops in ip_vs_dst_event on rmmod
Cc: lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:33:17 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Simon Horman wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:30:11PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> >     After commit 39f618b4fd95ae243d940ec64c961009c74e3333 (3.4)
> > "ipvs: reset ipvs pointer in netns" we can oops in
> > ip_vs_dst_event on rmmod ip_vs because ip_vs_control_cleanup
> > is called after the ipvs_core_ops subsys is unregistered and
> > net->ipvs is NULL. Fix it by exiting early from ip_vs_dst_event
> > if ipvs is NULL. It is safe because all services and dests
> > for the net are already freed.
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> have you observed this oops or is it theoretical?
> I ask because it effects if I should submit this change for
> inclusion in 3.5 and 3.4-stable or just queue it up for 3.6.

        Yes, oops happened to me. I'm not sure how I missed
it while creating the mentioned change. Please, queue it
for stable kernels.

> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > index dd811b8..b4a21d9 100644
> > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > @@ -1521,11 +1521,12 @@ static int ip_vs_dst_event(struct notifier_block 
> > *this, unsigned long event,
> >  {
> >     struct net_device *dev = ptr;
> >     struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
> > +   struct netns_ipvs *ipvs = net_ipvs(net);
> >     struct ip_vs_service *svc;
> >     struct ip_vs_dest *dest;
> >     unsigned int idx;
> >  
> > -   if (event != NETDEV_UNREGISTER)
> > +   if (event != NETDEV_UNREGISTER || !ipvs)
> >             return NOTIFY_DONE;
> >     IP_VS_DBG(3, "%s() dev=%s\n", __func__, dev->name);
> >     EnterFunction(2);
> > @@ -1551,7 +1552,7 @@ static int ip_vs_dst_event(struct notifier_block 
> > *this, unsigned long event,
> >             }
> >     }
> >  
> > -   list_for_each_entry(dest, &net_ipvs(net)->dest_trash, n_list) {
> > +   list_for_each_entry(dest, &ipvs->dest_trash, n_list) {
> >             __ip_vs_dev_reset(dest, dev);
> >     }
> >     mutex_unlock(&__ip_vs_mutex);
> > -- 
> > 1.7.3.4

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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