tipc: eliminate race during node creation

Instances of struct node are created in the function tipc_disc_rcv()
under the assumption that there is no race between received discovery
messages arriving from the same node. This assumption is wrong.
When we use more than one bearer, it is possible that discovery
messages from the same node arrive at the same moment, resulting in
creation of two instances of struct tipc_node. This may later cause
confusion during link establishment, and may result in one of the links
never becoming activated.

We fix this by making lookup and potential creation of nodes atomic.
Instead of first looking up the node, and in case of failure, create it,
we now start with looking up the node inside node_link_create(), and
return a reference to that one if found. Otherwise, we go ahead and
create the node as we did before.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c
index d4cb8c127063..842bd7ad4b17 100644
--- a/net/tipc/node.c
+++ b/net/tipc/node.c
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ struct tipc_node *tipc_node_create(struct net *net, u32 addr)
         struct tipc_node *n_ptr, *temp_node;
 
         spin_lock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
-
+        n_ptr = tipc_node_find(net, addr);
+        if (n_ptr)
+                goto exit;
         n_ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*n_ptr), GFP_ATOMIC);
         if (!n_ptr) {
-                spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
                 pr_warn("Node creation failed, no memory\n");
-                return NULL;
+                goto exit;
         }
-
         n_ptr->addr = addr;
         n_ptr->net = net;
         spin_lock_init(&n_ptr->lock);
@@ -123,9 +123,8 @@ struct tipc_node *tipc_node_create(struct net *net, u32 addr)
         list_add_tail_rcu(&n_ptr->list, &temp_node->list);
         n_ptr->action_flags = TIPC_WAIT_PEER_LINKS_DOWN;
         n_ptr->signature = INVALID_NODE_SIG;
-
         tn->num_nodes++;
-
+exit:
         spin_unlock_bh(&tn->node_list_lock);
         return n_ptr;
 }