Thread (12 messages) flat view 12 messages, 5 authors, 2012-08-21

Re: IPv4 BUG: held lock freed!

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-19 14:45:40
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [sockets], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds

On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 22:15 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
Will it still has problem if code goes here without sock_hold(sk)?
Not sure of what you mean.

At the time tcp_write_timer() runs, we own one reference on the socket.
(this reference was taken in sk_reset_timer())

On old kernels, if we found the socket locked by the user, we used to
rearm the timer for a 50ms delay (and thus did sock_hold() again)

Another way to avoid the bug would to make sure sk_reset_timer()
increases refcount _before_ setting the timer, but its adding one atomic
in fast path...
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 8f67ced..d1745b7 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -2114,8 +2114,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_send_sigurg);
 void sk_reset_timer(struct sock *sk, struct timer_list* timer,
 		    unsigned long expires)
 {
-	if (!mod_timer(timer, expires))
-		sock_hold(sk);
+	sock_hold(sk);
+	if (mod_timer(timer, expires))
+		__sock_put(sk);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_reset_timer);
 
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