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RDMA/mlx5: Create an indirect flow table for steering anchor
A misbehaved user can create a steering anchor that points to a kernel flow table and then destroy the anchor without freeing the associated STC. This creates a problem as the kernel can't destroy the flow table since there is still a reference to it. As a result, this can exhaust all available flow table resources, preventing other users from using the RDMA device. To prevent this problem, a solution is implemented where a special flow table with two steering rules is created when a user creates a steering anchor for the first time. The rules include one that drops all traffic and another that points to the kernel flow table. If the steering anchor is destroyed, only the rule pointing to the kernel's flow table is removed. Any traffic reaching the special flow table after that is dropped. Since the special flow table is not destroyed when the steering anchor is destroyed, any issues are prevented from occurring. The remaining resources are only destroyed when the RDMA device is destroyed, which happens after all DEVX objects are freed, including the STCs, thus mitigating the issue. Fixes: 0c6ab0c ("RDMA/mlx5: Expose steering anchor to userspace") Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b4a88a871d651fa4e8f98d552553c1cfe9ba2cd6.1685960567.git.leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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