On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:35:55AM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> >
> >I think you should use the new vrf_master_index() helper that acquires rcu
> >because
> >it looks possible to call ->decode_session() without rcu read lock, e.g. in
> >the hold_timer
> >function xfrm_policy_queue_process(), though I haven’t tested it and might
> >be missing
> >something. :-)
>
> I was digging into code paths yesterday. Today I added WARN_ON and
> seems like the rcu_read_lock is held:
>
> if (skb_dst(skb)) {
> WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_held() && !rcu_read_lock_bh_held());
> oif = vrf_master_ifindex_rcu(skb_dst(skb)->dev) ?
> : skb_dst(skb)->dev->ifindex;
> pr_info("_decode_session: oif %d skb_dst(skb)->dev->ifindex %d\n",
> oif, skb_dst(skb)->dev->ifindex);
> }
>
> I get the printk, but not the WARN_ON splat.
Well, this depends on the codepath that called xfrm_decode_session().
It really think it was not called through xfrm_policy_queue_process()
because this codepath is just used if the sysctl xfrm_larval_drop is switched
off (on by default) and the required xfrm_state is not yet established.
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