[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 2a48375fe4cc673038d9beb24862c0dc079ad339 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:58:58 -0700
Subject: tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu()

[ Upstream commit 349ce993ac706869d553a1816426d3a4bfda02b1 ]

percpu tcp_md5sig_pool contains memory blobs that ultimately
go through sg_set_buf().

-> sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(buf), buflen, offset_in_page(buf));

This requires that whole area is in a physically contiguous portion
of memory. And that @buf is not backed by vmalloc().

Given that alloc_percpu() can use vmalloc() areas, this does not
fit the requirements.

Replace alloc_percpu() by a static DEFINE_PER_CPU() as tcp_md5sig_pool
is small anyway, there is no gain to dynamically allocate it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Fixes: 765cf9976e93 ("tcp: md5: remove one indirection level in tcp_md5sig_pool")
Reported-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <cdleonard at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index e06e1df..84c69c4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2792,61 +2792,42 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(compat_tcp_getsockopt);
 #endif

 #ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
-static struct tcp_md5sig_pool __percpu *tcp_md5sig_pool __read_mostly;
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tcp_md5sig_pool, tcp_md5sig_pool);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(tcp_md5sig_mutex);
-
-static void __tcp_free_md5sig_pool(struct tcp_md5sig_pool __percpu *pool)
-{
-	int cpu;
-
-	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		struct tcp_md5sig_pool *p = per_cpu_ptr(pool, cpu);
-
-		if (p->md5_desc.tfm)
-			crypto_free_hash(p->md5_desc.tfm);
-	}
-	free_percpu(pool);
-}
+static bool tcp_md5sig_pool_populated = false;

 static void __tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool(void)
 {
 	int cpu;
-	struct tcp_md5sig_pool __percpu *pool;
-
-	pool = alloc_percpu(struct tcp_md5sig_pool);
-	if (!pool)
-		return;

 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		struct crypto_hash *hash;
-
-		hash = crypto_alloc_hash("md5", 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
-		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(hash))
-			goto out_free;
+		if (!per_cpu(tcp_md5sig_pool, cpu).md5_desc.tfm) {
+			struct crypto_hash *hash;

-		per_cpu_ptr(pool, cpu)->md5_desc.tfm = hash;
+			hash = crypto_alloc_hash("md5", 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
+			if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(hash))
+				return;
+			per_cpu(tcp_md5sig_pool, cpu).md5_desc.tfm = hash;
+		}
 	}
-	/* before setting tcp_md5sig_pool, we must commit all writes
-	 * to memory. See ACCESS_ONCE() in tcp_get_md5sig_pool()
+	/* before setting tcp_md5sig_pool_populated, we must commit all writes
+	 * to memory. See smp_rmb() in tcp_get_md5sig_pool()
 	 */
 	smp_wmb();
-	tcp_md5sig_pool = pool;
-	return;
-out_free:
-	__tcp_free_md5sig_pool(pool);
+	tcp_md5sig_pool_populated = true;
 }

 bool tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool(void)
 {
-	if (unlikely(!tcp_md5sig_pool)) {
+	if (unlikely(!tcp_md5sig_pool_populated)) {
 		mutex_lock(&tcp_md5sig_mutex);

-		if (!tcp_md5sig_pool)
+		if (!tcp_md5sig_pool_populated)
 			__tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool();

 		mutex_unlock(&tcp_md5sig_mutex);
 	}
-	return tcp_md5sig_pool != NULL;
+	return tcp_md5sig_pool_populated;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool);

@@ -2860,13 +2841,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool);
  */
 struct tcp_md5sig_pool *tcp_get_md5sig_pool(void)
 {
-	struct tcp_md5sig_pool __percpu *p;
-
 	local_bh_disable();
-	p = ACCESS_ONCE(tcp_md5sig_pool);
-	if (p)
-		return __this_cpu_ptr(p);

+	if (tcp_md5sig_pool_populated) {
+		/* coupled with smp_wmb() in __tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool() */
+		smp_rmb();
+		return this_cpu_ptr(&tcp_md5sig_pool);
+	}
 	local_bh_enable();
 	return NULL;
 }
--
1.9.1