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From:   Tan Hu <tan.hu@zte.com.cn>
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Subject: [PATCH] ipvs: fix race between ip_vs_conn_new() and ip_vs_del_dest()
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:12:33 +0800
Message-Id: <1532419953-5517-1-git-send-email-tan.hu@zte.com.cn>
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We came across infinite loop in ipvs when using ipvs in docker
env.

When ipvs receives new packets and cannot find an ipvs connection,
it will create a new connection, then if the dest is unavailable
(i.e. IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE), the packet will be dropped sliently.

But if the dropped packet is the first packet of this connection,
the connection control timer never has a chance to start and the
ipvs connection cannot be released. This will lead to memory leak, or
infinite loop in cleanup_net() when net namespace is released like
this:

    ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f31a [ip_vs]
    __ip_vs_cleanup at ffffffffa0a9f60a [ip_vs]
    ops_exit_list at ffffffff81567a49
    cleanup_net at ffffffff81568b40
    process_one_work at ffffffff810a851b
    worker_thread at ffffffff810a9356
    kthread at ffffffff810b0b6f
    ret_from_fork at ffffffff81697a18

race condition:
    CPU1                           CPU2
    ip_vs_in()
      ip_vs_conn_new()
                                   ip_vs_del_dest()
                                     __ip_vs_unlink_dest()
                                       ~IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
      cp->dest && !IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE
      __ip_vs_conn_put
      ...
      cleanup_net  ---> infinite looping

Fix this by checking whether the timer already started.

Signed-off-by: Tan Hu <tan.hu@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index 0679dd1..ca9e7cc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1972,13 +1972,17 @@ static int ip_vs_in_icmp_v6(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (cp->dest && !(cp->dest->flags & IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE)) {
 		/* the destination server is not available */
 
+		/* when timer already started, silently drop the packet.*/
+		if (timer_pending(&cp->timer))
+			__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+		else
+			ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+
 		if (sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) {
 			/* try to expire the connection immediately */
 			ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
 		}
-		/* don't restart its timer, and silently
-		   drop the packet. */
-		__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+
 		return NF_DROP;
 	}
 
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