xen-netback: fix race condition on XenBus disconnect

In some cases during XenBus disconnect event handling and subsequent
queue resource release there may be some TX handlers active on
other processors. Use RCU in order to synchronize with them.

Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c

@@ -165,13 +165,17 @@ static int xenvif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL;
-	unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
+	unsigned int num_queues;
 	u16 index;
 	struct xenvif_rx_cb *cb;
 
 	BUG_ON(skb->dev != dev);
 
-	/* Drop the packet if queues are not set up */
+	/* Drop the packet if queues are not set up.
+	 * This handler should be called inside an RCU read section
+	 * so we don't need to enter it here explicitly.
+	 */
+	num_queues = READ_ONCE(vif->num_queues);
 	if (num_queues < 1)
 		goto drop;
 
@@ -222,18 +226,18 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL;
+	unsigned int num_queues;
 	u64 rx_bytes = 0;
 	u64 rx_packets = 0;
 	u64 tx_bytes = 0;
 	u64 tx_packets = 0;
 	unsigned int index;
 
-	spin_lock(&vif->lock);
-	if (vif->queues == NULL)
-		goto out;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	num_queues = READ_ONCE(vif->num_queues);
 
 	/* Aggregate tx and rx stats from each queue */
-	for (index = 0; index < vif->num_queues; ++index) {
+	for (index = 0; index < num_queues; ++index) {
 		queue = &vif->queues[index];
 		rx_bytes += queue->stats.rx_bytes;
 		rx_packets += queue->stats.rx_packets;
@@ -241,8 +245,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 		tx_packets += queue->stats.tx_packets;
 	}
 
-out:
-	spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_bytes = rx_bytes;
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_packets = rx_packets;
@@ -378,10 +381,13 @@ static void xenvif_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
 				     struct ethtool_stats *stats, u64 * data)
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
-	unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
+	unsigned int num_queues;
 	int i;
 	unsigned int queue_index;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	num_queues = READ_ONCE(vif->num_queues);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(xenvif_stats); i++) {
 		unsigned long accum = 0;
 		for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < num_queues; ++queue_index) {
@@ -390,6 +396,8 @@ static void xenvif_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
 		}
 		data[i] = accum;
 	}
+
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 static void xenvif_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, u32 stringset, u8 * data)

drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static void xenvif_fatal_tx_err(struct xenvif *vif)
 	netdev_err(vif->dev, "fatal error; disabling device\n");
 	vif->disabled = true;
 	/* Disable the vif from queue 0's kthread */
-	if (vif->queues)
+	if (vif->num_queues)
 		xenvif_kick_thread(&vif->queues[0]);
 }
 

drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c

@@ -495,26 +495,26 @@ static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
 	struct xenvif *vif = be->vif;
 
 	if (vif) {
+		unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
 		unsigned int queue_index;
-		struct xenvif_queue *queues;
 
 		xen_unregister_watchers(vif);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 		xenvif_debugfs_delif(vif);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 		xenvif_disconnect_data(vif);
-		for (queue_index = 0;
-		     queue_index < vif->num_queues;
-		     ++queue_index)
+
+		/* At this point some of the handlers may still be active
+		 * so we need to have additional synchronization here.
+		 */
+		vif->num_queues = 0;
+		synchronize_net();
+
+		for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < num_queues; ++queue_index)
 			xenvif_deinit_queue(&vif->queues[queue_index]);
 
-		spin_lock(&vif->lock);
-		queues = vif->queues;
-		vif->num_queues = 0;
+		vfree(vif->queues);
 		vif->queues = NULL;
-		spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
-
-		vfree(queues);
 
 		xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(vif);
 	}