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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2015-01-21 11:54:01 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-26 11:56:34 -0800
commitfe6a043c535acfec8f8e554536c87923dcb45097 (patch)
tree77f06c370e355b2a1ec6c04ea104983625bd8d7b
parent1dc7b90f7cd050ef6d5e511e652347e52874469c (diff)
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rhashtable: rhashtable_remove() must unlink in both tbl and future_tbl
As removals can occur during resizes, entries may be referred to from both tbl and future_tbl when the removal is requested. Therefore rhashtable_remove() must unlink the entry in both tables if this is the case. The existing code did search both tables but stopped when it hit the first match. Failing to unlink in both tables resulted in use after free. Fixes: 97defe1ecf86 ("rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking") Reported-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--lib/rhashtable.c24
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 84a78e3..bc2d0d8 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ bool rhashtable_remove(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *obj)
struct rhash_head *he;
spinlock_t *lock;
unsigned int hash;
+ bool ret = false;
rcu_read_lock();
tbl = rht_dereference_rcu(ht->tbl, ht);
@@ -602,17 +603,16 @@ restart:
}
rcu_assign_pointer(*pprev, obj->next);
- atomic_dec(&ht->nelems);
-
- spin_unlock_bh(lock);
-
- rhashtable_wakeup_worker(ht);
-
- rcu_read_unlock();
- return true;
+ ret = true;
+ break;
}
+ /* The entry may be linked in either 'tbl', 'future_tbl', or both.
+ * 'future_tbl' only exists for a short period of time during
+ * resizing. Thus traversing both is fine and the added cost is
+ * very rare.
+ */
if (tbl != rht_dereference_rcu(ht->future_tbl, ht)) {
spin_unlock_bh(lock);
@@ -625,9 +625,15 @@ restart:
}
spin_unlock_bh(lock);
+
+ if (ret) {
+ atomic_dec(&ht->nelems);
+ rhashtable_wakeup_worker(ht);
+ }
+
rcu_read_unlock();
- return false;
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_remove);
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