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net: nexthop: fix refcount issues when replacing groups
This set fixes a refcount bug when replacing nexthop groups and
modifying routes. It is complex because the objects look valid when
debugging memory dumps, but we end up having refcount dependency between
unlinked objects which can never be released, so in turn they cannot
free their resources and refcounts. The problem happens because we can
have stale IPv6 per-cpu dsts in nexthops which were removed from a
group. Even though the IPv6 gen is bumped, the dsts won't be released
until traffic passes through them or the nexthop is freed, that can take
arbitrarily long time, and even worse we can create a scenario[1] where it
can never be released. The fix is to release the IPv6 per-cpu dsts of
replaced nexthops after an RCU grace period so no new ones can be
created. To do that we add a new IPv6 stub - fib6_nh_release_dsts, which
is used by the nexthop code only when necessary. We can further optimize
group replacement, but that is more suited for net-next as these patches
would have to be backported to stable releases.
v2: patch 02: update commit msg
patch 03: check for mausezahn before testing and make a few comments
more verbose
[1]
This info is also present in patch 02's commit message.
Initial state:
$ ip nexthop list
id 200 via 2002:db8::2 dev bridge.10 scope link onlink
id 201 via 2002:db8::3 dev bridge scope link onlink
id 203 group 201/200
$ ip -6 route
2001:db8::10 nhid 203 metric 1024 pref medium
nexthop via 2002:db8::3 dev bridge weight 1 onlink
nexthop via 2002:db8::2 dev bridge.10 weight 1 onlink
Create rt6_info through one of the multipath legs, e.g.:
$ taskset -a -c 1 ./pkt_inj 24 bridge.10 2001:db8::10
(pkt_inj is just a custom packet generator, nothing special)
Then remove that leg from the group by replace (let's assume it is id
200 in this case):
$ ip nexthop replace id 203 group 201
Now remove the IPv6 route:
$ ip -6 route del 2001:db8::10/128
The route won't be really deleted due to the stale rt6_info holding 1
refcnt in nexthop id 200.
At this point we have the following reference count dependency:
(deleted) IPv6 route holds 1 reference over nhid 203
nh 203 holds 1 ref over id 201
nh 200 holds 1 ref over the net device and the route due to the stale
rt6_info
Now to create circular dependency between nh 200 and the IPv6 route, and
also to get a reference over nh 200, restore nhid 200 in the group:
$ ip nexthop replace id 203 group 201/200
And now we have a permanent circular dependncy because nhid 203 holds a
reference over nh 200 and 201, but the route holds a ref over nh 203 and
is deleted.
To trigger the bug just delete the group (nhid 203):
$ ip nexthop del id 203
It won't really be deleted due to the IPv6 route dependency, and now we
have 2 unlinked and deleted objects that reference each other: the group
and the IPv6 route. Since the group drops the reference it holds over its
entries at free time (i.e. its own refcount needs to drop to 0) that will
never happen and we get a permanent ref on them, since one of the entries
holds a reference over the IPv6 route it will also never be released.
At this point the dependencies are:
(deleted, only unlinked) IPv6 route holds reference over group nh 203
(deleted, only unlinked) group nh 203 holds reference over nh 201 and 200
nh 200 holds 1 ref over the net device and the route due to the stale
rt6_info
This is the last point where it can be fixed by running traffic through
nh 200, and specifically through the same CPU so the rt6_info (dst) will
get released due to the IPv6 genid, that in turn will free the IPv6
route, which in turn will free the ref count over the group nh 203.
If nh 200 is deleted at this point, it will never be released due to the
ref from the unlinked group 203, it will only be unlinked:
$ ip nexthop del id 200
$ ip nexthop
$
Now we can never release that stale rt6_info, we have IPv6 route with ref
over group nh 203, group nh 203 with ref over nh 200 and 201, nh 200 with
rt6_info (dst) with ref over the net device and the IPv6 route. All of
these objects are only unlinked, and cannot be released, thus they can't
release their ref counts.
Message from syslogd@dev at Nov 19 14:04:10 ...
kernel:[73501.828730] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bridge.10 to become free. Usage count = 3
Message from syslogd@dev at Nov 19 14:04:20 ...
kernel:[73512.068811] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bridge.10 to become free. Usage count = 3
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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