IB/ipoib: Avoid a race condition between start_xmit and cm_rep_handler
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798587 commit 816e846c upstream. Inside of start_xmit() the call to check if the connection is up and the queueing of the packets for later transmission is not atomic which leaves a window where cm_rep_handler can run, set the connection up, dequeue pending packets and leave the subsequently queued packets by start_xmit() sitting on neigh->queue until they're dropped when the connection is torn down. This only applies to connected mode. These dropped packets can really upset TCP, for example, and cause multi-minute delays in transmission for open connections. Here's the code in start_xmit where we check to see if the connection is up: if (ipoib_cm_get(neigh)) { if (ipoib_cm_up(neigh)) { ipoib_cm_send(dev, skb, ipoib_cm_get(neigh)); goto unref; } } The race occurs if cm_rep_handler execution occurs after the above connection check (specifically if it gets to the point where it acquires priv->lock to dequeue pending skb's) but before the below code snippet in start_xmit where packets are queued. if (skb_queue_len(&neigh->queue) < IPOIB_MAX_PATH_REC_QUEUE) { push_pseudo_header(skb, phdr->hwaddr); spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); __skb_queue_tail(&neigh->queue, skb); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); } else { ++dev->stats.tx_dropped; dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } The patch acquires the netif tx lock in cm_rep_handler for the section where it sets the connection up and dequeues and retransmits deferred skb's. Fixes: 839fcaba ("IPoIB: Connected mode experimental support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov> Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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