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

Re: IPv4 BUG: held lock freed!

From: Lin Ming <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-19 15:06:30
Also in: lkml

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 22:15 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
quoted
Will it still has problem if code goes here without sock_hold(sk)?
Not sure of what you mean.
See my comments in the function.
Is that a potential problem?

static void tcp_write_timer(unsigned long data)
{
        struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)data;

        bh_lock_sock(sk);
        if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
                tcp_write_timer_handler(sk);

                //if we arrive here with sk_refcnt=1
                //then below sock_put(sk) will also free the sock.
        } else {
                /* deleguate our work to tcp_release_cb() */
                set_bit(TCP_WRITE_TIMER_DEFERRED, &tcp_sk(sk)->tsq_flags);
        }
        bh_unlock_sock(sk);
        sock_put(sk);
}

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...
I think this is safer than your previous fix.

Thanks.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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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