From 7aa0045dadb6ef37485ea9f2a7d28278ca588b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:24:28 -0700
Subject: net_sched: introduce a workqueue for RCU callbacks of tc filter

This patch introduces a dedicated workqueue for tc filters
so that each tc filter's RCU callback could defer their
action destroy work to this workqueue. The helper
tcf_queue_work() is introduced for them to use.

Because we hold RTNL lock when calling tcf_block_put(), we
can not simply flush works inside it, therefore we have to
defer it again to this workqueue and make sure all flying RCU
callbacks have already queued their work before this one, in
other words, to ensure this is the last one to execute to
prevent any use-after-free.

On the other hand, this makes tcf_block_put() ugly and
harder to understand. Since David and Eric strongly dislike
adding synchronize_rcu(), this is probably the only
solution that could make everyone happy.

Please also see the code comments below.

Reported-by: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/net/pkt_cls.h     | 3 +++
 include/net/sch_generic.h | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/net/pkt_cls.h b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
index e80edd8879ef..3009547f3c66 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_cls.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define __NET_PKT_CLS_H
 
 #include <linux/pkt_cls.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <net/sch_generic.h>
 #include <net/act_api.h>
 
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ struct tcf_walker {
 int register_tcf_proto_ops(struct tcf_proto_ops *ops);
 int unregister_tcf_proto_ops(struct tcf_proto_ops *ops);
 
+bool tcf_queue_work(struct work_struct *work);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS
 struct tcf_chain *tcf_chain_get(struct tcf_block *block, u32 chain_index,
 				bool create);
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 135f5a2dd931..0dec8a23be57 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/dynamic_queue_limits.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/refcount.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <net/gen_stats.h>
 #include <net/rtnetlink.h>
 
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ struct tcf_chain {
 
 struct tcf_block {
 	struct list_head chain_list;
+	struct work_struct work;
 };
 
 static inline void qdisc_cb_private_validate(const struct sk_buff *skb, int sz)
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