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net: add a recursion limit in xmit path
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As tunnel devices are going to be lockless, we need to make sure a
misconfigured machine wont enter an infinite loop.

Add a percpu variable, and limit to three the number of stacked xmits.

Reported-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored and davem330 committed Sep 29, 2010
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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion net/core/dev.c
Expand Up @@ -2177,6 +2177,9 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
return rc;
}

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, xmit_recursion);
#define RECURSION_LIMIT 3

/**
* dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
* @skb: buffer to transmit
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if (txq->xmit_lock_owner != cpu) {

if (__this_cpu_read(xmit_recursion) > RECURSION_LIMIT)
goto recursion_alert;

HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, cpu);

if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)) {
__this_cpu_inc(xmit_recursion);
rc = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq);
__this_cpu_dec(xmit_recursion);
if (dev_xmit_complete(rc)) {
HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
goto out;
Expand All @@ -2257,7 +2265,9 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
"queue packet!\n", dev->name);
} else {
/* Recursion is detected! It is possible,
* unfortunately */
* unfortunately
*/
recursion_alert:
if (net_ratelimit())
printk(KERN_CRIT "Dead loop on virtual device "
"%s, fix it urgently!\n", dev->name);
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