IB/ipoib: Fix double free of skb in case of multicast traffic in CM mode
When connected mode is set, and we have connected and datagram traffic in parallel, ipoib might crash with double free of datagram skb. The current mechanism assumes that the order in the completion queue is the same as the order of sent packets for all QPs. Order is kept only for specific QP, in case of mixed UD and CM traffic we have few QPs (one UD and few CM's) in parallel. The problem: ---------------------------------------------------------- Transmit queue: ----------------- UD skb pointer kept in queue itself, CM skb kept in spearate queue and uses transmit queue as a placeholder to count the number of total transmitted packets. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 .........127 ------------------------------------------------------------ NL ud1 UD2 CM1 ud3 cm2 cm3 ud4 cm4 ud5 NL NL NL ........... ------------------------------------------------------------ ^ ^ tail head Completion queue (problematic scenario) - the order not the same as in the transmit queue: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ------------------------------------ ud1 CM1 UD2 ud3 cm2 cm3 ud4 cm4 ud5 ------------------------------------ 1. CM1 'wc' processing - skb freed in cm separate ring. - tx_tail of transmit queue increased although UD2 is not freed. Now driver assumes UD2 index is already freed and it could be used for new transmitted skb. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 .........127 ------------------------------------------------------------ NL NL UD2 CM1 ud3 cm2 cm3 ud4 cm4 ud5 NL NL NL ........... ------------------------------------------------------------ ^ ^ ^ (Bad)tail head (Bad - Could be used for new SKB) In this case (due to heavy load) UD2 skb pointer could be replaced by new transmitted packet UD_NEW, as the driver assumes its free. At this point we will have to process two 'wc' with same index but we have only one pointer to free. During second attempt to free the same skb we will have NULL pointer exception. 2. UD2 'wc' processing - skb freed according the index we got from 'wc', but it was already overwritten by mistake. So actually the skb that was released is the skb of the new transmitted packet and not the original one. 3. UD_NEW 'wc' processing - attempt to free already freed skb. NUll pointer exception. The fix: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The fix is to stop using the UD ring as a placeholder for CM packets, the cyclic ring variables tx_head and tx_tail will manage the UD tx_ring, a new cyclic variables global_tx_head and global_tx_tail are introduced for managing and counting the overall outstanding sent packets, then the send queue will be stopped and waken based on these variables only. Note that no locking is needed since global_tx_head is updated in the xmit flow and global_tx_tail is updated in the NAPI flow only. A previous attempt tried to use one variable to count the outstanding sent packets, but it did not work since xmit and NAPI flows can run at the same time and the counter will be updated wrongly. Thus, we use the same simple cyclic head and tail scheme that we have today for the UD tx_ring. Fixes: 2c104ea6 ("IB/ipoib: Get rid of the tx_outstanding variable in all modes") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527134705.480068-1-leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Valentine Fatiev <valentinef@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Alaa Hleihel <alaa@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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