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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/1] xfrm : lock input tasklet skb queue
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Tom Rix wrote:
> On PREEMPT_RT_FULL while running netperf, a corruption
> of the skb queue causes an oops.
>
> This appears to be caused by a race condition here
> __skb_queue_tail(&trans->queue, skb);
> tasklet_schedule(&trans->tasklet);
> Where the queue is changed before the tasklet is locked by
> tasklet_schedule.
>
> The fix is to use the skb queue lock.
>
> This is the original work of Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/111
> xfrm_input: Protect queue with lock
>
> During the skb_queue_splice_init the tasklet could have been preempted
> and __skb_queue_tail called, which led to an inconsistent queue.
>
> ifdefs for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL added to reduce runtime effects
> on the normal kernel.

Has Herbert commented on your initial patch, please
fix PREEMPT_RT_FULL instead. There are certainly many
more codepaths that take such assumptions. You can not
fix this by distributing a spin_lock_irqsave here
and there.

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