tjh.dev
net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to
br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat
below [0] under RTNL pressure.
Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and
Thread B is trying to remove the bridge.
In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by
netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()
also re-acquires RTNL.
In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove
the bridge device. Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL
and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.
Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),
which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by
Thread B.
Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF) Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)
---------------------- ----------------------
sock_ioctl sock_ioctl
`- sock_do_ioctl `- br_ioctl_call
`- dev_ioctl `- br_ioctl_stub
|- rtnl_lock |
|- dev_ifsioc '
' |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
|- netdev_hold(dev, ...) .
/ |- rtnl_unlock ------. |
| |- br_ioctl_call `---> |- rtnl_lock
Race | | `- br_ioctl_stub |- br_del_bridge
Window | | | |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
| | | May take long | `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)
| | | under RTNL pressure | `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)
| | | | `- rtnl_unlock
\ | |- rtnl_lock <-' `- netdev_run_todo
| |- ... `- netdev_run_todo
| `- rtnl_unlock |- __rtnl_unlock
| |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any
|- netdev_put(dev, ...) <----------------'
Wait refcnt decrement
and log splat below
To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call
dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:
1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()
2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()
3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()
4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()
3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move
1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().
Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better
performed before RTNL.
SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since
the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process
them there.
[0]:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2
ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at
__netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]
netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]
dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624
dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826
sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213
sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Fixes: 893b19587534 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking")
Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Reported-by: yan kang <kangyan91@outlook.com>
Reported-by: yue sun <samsun1006219@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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