linux/net/sched
Patrick McHardy 85670cc1fa [NET_SCHED]: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change
The move of qdisc destruction to a rcu callback broke locking in the
entire qdisc layer by invalidating previously valid assumptions about
the context in which changes to the qdisc tree occur.

The two assumptions were:

- since changes only happen in process context, read_lock doesn't need
  bottem half protection. Now invalid since destruction of inner qdiscs,
  classifiers, actions and estimators happens in the RCU callback unless
  they're manually deleted, resulting in dead-locks when read_lock in
  process context is interrupted by write_lock_bh in bottem half context.

- since changes only happen under the RTNL, no additional locking is
  necessary for data not used during packet processing (f.e. u32_list).
  Again, since destruction now happens in the RCU callback, this assumption
  is not valid anymore, causing races while using this data, which can
  result in corruption or use-after-free.

Instead of "fixing" this by disabling bottem halfs everywhere and adding
new locks/refcounting, this patch makes these assumptions valid again by
moving destruction back to process context. Since only the dev->qdisc
pointer is protected by RCU, but ->enqueue and the qdisc tree are still
protected by dev->qdisc_lock, destruction of the tree can be performed
immediately and only the final free needs to happen in the rcu callback
to make sure dev_queue_xmit doesn't access already freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:01:50 -07:00
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act_api.c
act_gact.c
act_ipt.c [NETFILTER]: x_tables: remove unused size argument to check/destroy functions 2006-09-22 14:55:34 -07:00
act_mirred.c
act_pedit.c
act_police.c
act_simple.c [PKT_SCHED] act_simple.c: make struct simp_hash_info static 2006-09-22 15:18:40 -07:00
cls_api.c [NET_SCHED]: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change 2006-09-28 18:01:50 -07:00
cls_basic.c [PKT_SCHED] cls_basic: Use unsigned int when generating handle 2006-09-28 18:01:45 -07:00
cls_fw.c [NET_SCHED]: Add mask support to fwmark classifier 2006-09-22 15:18:12 -07:00
cls_route.c
cls_rsvp6.c
cls_rsvp.c
cls_rsvp.h
cls_tcindex.c
cls_u32.c
em_cmp.c
em_meta.c
em_nbyte.c
em_text.c
em_u32.c
ematch.c
estimator.c
Kconfig
Makefile
sch_api.c [NET_SCHED]: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change 2006-09-28 18:01:50 -07:00
sch_atm.c
sch_blackhole.c
sch_cbq.c
sch_dsmark.c
sch_fifo.c
sch_generic.c [NET_SCHED]: Fix fallout from dev->qdisc RCU change 2006-09-28 18:01:50 -07:00
sch_gred.c
sch_hfsc.c
sch_htb.c [NET_SCHED]: HTB: fix incorrect use of RB_EMPTY_NODE 2006-09-28 18:01:49 -07:00
sch_ingress.c
sch_netem.c
sch_prio.c
sch_red.c
sch_sfq.c
sch_tbf.c
sch_teql.c