Re: [PATCH net] vsock: fix potential deadlock in transport->release()

From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:58:18 +0100

Some transports (hyperv, virtio) acquire the sock lock during the
.release() callback.

In the vsock_stream_connect() we call vsock_assign_transport(); if
the socket was previously assigned to another transport, the
vsk->transport->release() is called, but the sock lock is already
held in the vsock_stream_connect(), causing a deadlock reported by
syzbot:

 ...

To avoid this issue, this patch remove the lock acquiring in the
.release() callback of hyperv and virtio transports, and it holds
the lock when we call vsk->transport->release() in the vsock core.

Reported-by: syzbot+731710996d79d0d58fbc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 408624af4c89 ("vsock: use local transport when it is loaded")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>

Applied, thank you.