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| author | Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> | 2014-11-19 23:05:49 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-12-06 15:05:47 -0800 |
| commit | 3e5b12de56d8fae345d3b331a14bc06f7609a992 (patch) | |
| tree | 5825fbaaf5bb96c2b056169bd72fdea25d43982b /net | |
| parent | f0eed5a220e777b9e01b9eb45d7e387a35f1f6fa (diff) | |
ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx_recvmsg
[ Upstream commit 01462405f0c093b2f8dfddafcadcda6c9e4c5cdf ]
This fixes an old regression introduced by commit
b0d0d915 (ipx: remove the BKL).
When a recvmsg syscall blocks waiting for new data, no data can be sent on the
same socket with sendmsg because ipx_recvmsg() sleeps with the socket locked.
This breaks mars-nwe (NetWare emulator):
- the ncpserv process reads the request using recvmsg
- ncpserv forks and spawns nwconn
- ncpserv calls a (blocking) recvmsg and waits for new requests
- nwconn deadlocks in sendmsg on the same socket
Commit b0d0d915 has simply replaced BKL locking with
lock_sock/release_sock. Unlike now, BKL got unlocked while
sleeping, so a blocking recvmsg did not block a concurrent
sendmsg.
Only keep the socket locked while actually working with the socket data and
release it prior to calling skb_recv_datagram().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipx/af_ipx.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c index e0897377b3b4..2665bf4b8d05 100644 --- a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c +++ b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c @@ -1778,6 +1778,7 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct ipxhdr *ipx = NULL; struct sk_buff *skb; int copied, rc; + bool locked = true; lock_sock(sk); /* put the autobinding in */ @@ -1804,6 +1805,8 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED)) goto out; + release_sock(sk); + locked = false; skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &rc); if (!skb) @@ -1837,7 +1840,8 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, out_free: skb_free_datagram(sk, skb); out: - release_sock(sk); + if (locked) + release_sock(sk); return rc; } |