Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:32:51PM CEST, vla...@mellanox.com wrote: > >On Tue 15 May 2018 at 11:24, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >> Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:27:08PM CEST, vla...@mellanox.com wrote: >>>Change action API to assume that action init function always takes >>>reference to action, even when overwriting existing action. This is >>>necessary because action API continues to use action pointer after init >>>function is done. At this point action becomes accessible for concurrent >>>modifications so user must always hold reference to it. >>> >>>Implement helper put list function to atomically release list of actions >>>after action API init code is done using them. >>> >>>Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vla...@mellanox.com> >>>--- >>> net/sched/act_api.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++--------------------- >>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) >>> >> >> [...] >> >> >>>@@ -1196,8 +1190,7 @@ tca_action_gd(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, >>>struct nlmsghdr *n, >>> return ret; >>> } >>> err: >>>- if (event != RTM_GETACTION) >> >> Howcome you do this for RTM_GETACTION now too? Where is the related >> "get"? > >In patch 5. There is always a possibility of concurrent delete without >rtnl lock so all usages of action pointers were converted to hold >reference to action.
So that means that if you run kernel in between, with patch 5 but without patch 7 and you do RTM_GETACTION, you leak a reference, right? > >> >> >>>- tcf_action_destroy(&actions, 0); >>>+ tcf_action_put_lst(&actions); >>> return ret; >>> } >>> >> >> [...] > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
