Hi Jason,
I believe you are right, although the real problem is not what you think it is.
I can see at least two interesting scenarios here,  of which I believe you are 
alluding to the first one below. However, I don't think the problem is the
way Richard is using node_stop(), but rather with node_stop() itself. 
See below.

Scenario 1:
--------------

CPU 1                                CPU2
---------                             --------
1: node_timeout()                                                               
                      //refcnt == 1
2:     node_get()                                                               
                              //refcnt -> 2
3:                                       node_stop()
4:                                           del_timer()                        
                               // expired timer returns 0
6:                                           node_put()                         
                             // refcnt -> 1
6:                                                                          
node_find()
7:                                                                              
 node_get()                   //refcnt -> 2
8:    node_put()                                                                
                               //refcnt -> 1
9:                                                                              
  node_put()                  //refcnt -> 0
10:                                                                             
       node_kref_release()
11:                                                                             
          node_delete()
12:                                                                             
                hlist_del_rcu()
13:                                                                             
                kfree(node)

There are several possible variations on this theme, e.g., with multiple
parallel node_find() calls, but I don't think  they will normally lead to
a crash. Even though  node_find() sometimes may return the reference
to a node that was meant to be deleted, it will find the node in a state
where it will just decide to leave it again, where after the node will be
deleted.


The second scenario is more problematic:

Scenario 2:
-------------
CPU 1                                             CPU2
---------                                         --------
1: node_timeout()                                                          
//refcnt == 1
2:                                                  node_stop()
3:                                                           del_timer()        
  // expired timer returns 0
4:                                                           node_put()         
 //refcnt -> 0
5:                                                                 
node_kref_release()
6:                                                                        
node_delete()
7:                                                                              
  kfree(node)
8:     tipc_node_readlock(node)
9:   BOOM!

This one explains a crash I have seen occasionally when I am deleting a huge
 number (>100) of name spaces interconnected with TIPC. I don't know why I
 have been using del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync() here, which would
have been the  natural choice. I probably believed that our reference counter
handling would make it safe, which it obviously isn't.

Regards
///jon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: jason [mailto:huzhiji...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2016 02:37
> To: Richard Alpe
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [PATCH net-next v2] tipc: add peer removal
> functionality
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Jan 12, 2016 10:09 PM, "Richard Alpe" <richard.a...@ericsson.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Add TIPC_NL_PEER_REMOVE netlink command. This command can remove
> an
> > offline peer node from the internal data structures.
> >
> > This will be supported by the tipc user space tool in iproute2.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.a...@ericsson.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com>
> > Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying....@windriver.com>
> > ---
> >  include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h |  1 +
> >  net/tipc/net.c                    |  4 +--
> >  net/tipc/net.h                    |  2 ++
> >  net/tipc/netlink.c                |  5 ++++
> >  net/tipc/node.c                   | 60
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  net/tipc/node.h                   |  3 +-
> >  6 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h
> b/include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h
> > index d4c8f14..25eb645 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h
> > @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ enum {
> >         TIPC_NL_NET_GET,
> >         TIPC_NL_NET_SET,
> >         TIPC_NL_NAME_TABLE_GET,
> > +       TIPC_NL_PEER_REMOVE,
> >
> >         __TIPC_NL_CMD_MAX,
> >         TIPC_NL_CMD_MAX = __TIPC_NL_CMD_MAX - 1 diff --git
> > a/net/tipc/net.c b/net/tipc/net.c index 77bf911..042d4ce 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/net.c
> > +++ b/net/tipc/net.c
> > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
> >  #include "node.h"
> >  #include "bcast.h"
> >
> > -static const struct nla_policy tipc_nl_net_policy[TIPC_NLA_NET_MAX +
> > 1]
> = {
> > +const struct nla_policy tipc_nl_net_policy[TIPC_NLA_NET_MAX + 1] = {
> >         [TIPC_NLA_NET_UNSPEC]   = { .type = NLA_UNSPEC },
> >         [TIPC_NLA_NET_ID]       = { .type = NLA_U32 }
> >  };
> > @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ void tipc_net_stop(struct net *net)
> >                               tn->own_addr);
> >         rtnl_lock();
> >         tipc_bearer_stop(net);
> > -       tipc_node_stop(net);
> > +       tipc_node_stop_net(net);
> >         rtnl_unlock();
> >
> >         pr_info("Left network mode\n"); diff --git a/net/tipc/net.h
> > b/net/tipc/net.h index 77a7a11..c7c2549 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/net.h
> > +++ b/net/tipc/net.h
> > @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
> >
> >  #include <net/genetlink.h>
> >
> > +extern const struct nla_policy tipc_nl_net_policy[];
> > +
> >  int tipc_net_start(struct net *net, u32 addr);
> >
> >  void tipc_net_stop(struct net *net);
> > diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c index
> > 8975b01..9019df8 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/netlink.c
> > +++ b/net/tipc/netlink.c
> > @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ static const struct genl_ops tipc_genl_v2_ops[] = {
> >                 .cmd    = TIPC_NL_NAME_TABLE_GET,
> >                 .dumpit = tipc_nl_name_table_dump,
> >                 .policy = tipc_nl_policy,
> > +       },
> > +       {
> > +               .cmd    = TIPC_NL_PEER_REMOVE,
> > +               .doit   = tipc_nl_peer_rm,
> > +               .policy = tipc_nl_policy,
> >         }
> >  };
> >
> > diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c index fa97d96..988cdd9
> > 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/node.c
> > +++ b/net/tipc/node.c
> > @@ -399,17 +399,21 @@ static void tipc_node_delete(struct tipc_node
> *node)
> >         kfree_rcu(node, rcu);
> >  }
> >
> > -void tipc_node_stop(struct net *net)
> > +static void tipc_node_stop(struct tipc_node *node) {
> > +       if (del_timer(&node->timer))
> > +               tipc_node_put(node);
> > +       tipc_node_put(node);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void tipc_node_stop_net(struct net *net)
> >  {
> >         struct tipc_net *tn = net_generic(net, tipc_net_id);
> >         struct tipc_node *node, *t_node;
> >
> >         spin_lock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> > -       list_for_each_entry_safe(node, t_node, &tn->node_list, list) {
> > -               if (del_timer(&node->timer))
> > -                       tipc_node_put(node);
> > -               tipc_node_put(node);
> > -       }
> > +       list_for_each_entry_safe(node, t_node, &tn->node_list, list)
> > +               tipc_node_stop(node);
> >         spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -1529,6 +1533,50 @@ discard:
> >         kfree_skb(skb);
> >  }
> >
> > +int tipc_nl_peer_rm(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) {
> > +       int err;
> > +       u32 addr;
> > +       struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
> > +       struct nlattr *attrs[TIPC_NLA_NET_MAX + 1];
> > +       struct tipc_net *tn = net_generic(net, tipc_net_id);
> > +       struct tipc_node *peer;
> > +
> > +       /* We identify the peer by its net */
> > +       if (!info->attrs[TIPC_NLA_NET])
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +       err = nla_parse_nested(attrs, TIPC_NLA_NET_MAX,
> > +                              info->attrs[TIPC_NLA_NET],
> > +                              tipc_nl_net_policy);
> > +       if (err)
> > +               return err;
> > +
> > +       if (!attrs[TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR])
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +       addr = nla_get_u32(attrs[TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR]);
> > +
> > +       spin_lock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> > +       list_for_each_entry_rcu(peer, &tn->node_list, list) {
> > +               if (peer->addr != addr)
> > +                       continue;
> > +
> > +               if (peer->state == SELF_DOWN_PEER_DOWN ||
> > +                   peer->state == SELF_DOWN_PEER_LEAVING) {
> > +                       tipc_node_stop(peer);
> 
> I think here is not safe to do tipc_node_stop(). Because here we are not sure
> that node's refcount  really can drop to zero,thus, not sure
> tipc_node_delete() can be execute in a critical region which protected by
> node_list_lock spin lock. This may result in tipc_create_node() to return a 
> to-
> be-deleted node which is not in the node list any more.
> > +
> > +                       spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> > +                       return 0;
> > +               }
> > +               spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> > +               return -EBUSY;
> > +       }
> > +       spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
> > +
> > +       return -ENXIO;
> > +}
> > +
> >  int tipc_nl_node_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback
> > *cb)  {
> >         int err;
> > diff --git a/net/tipc/node.h b/net/tipc/node.h index f39d9d0..8dfb6ba
> > 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/node.h
> > +++ b/net/tipc/node.h
> > @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ enum {
> >  #define TIPC_NODE_CAPABILITIES TIPC_BCAST_SYNCH  #define
> > INVALID_BEARER_ID -1
> >
> > -void tipc_node_stop(struct net *net);
> > +void tipc_node_stop_net(struct net *net);
> >  void tipc_node_check_dest(struct net *net, u32 onode,
> >                           struct tipc_bearer *bearer,
> >                           u16 capabilities, u32 signature, @@ -75,5
> > +75,6 @@ int tipc_nl_node_dump_link(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> netlink_callback *cb);
> >  int tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> > genl_info
> *info);
> >  int tipc_nl_node_get_link(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info
> > *info);  int tipc_nl_node_set_link(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> > genl_info *info);
> > +int tipc_nl_peer_rm(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info);
> >
> >  #endif
> > --
> > 2.1.4
> >
> >
> >
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