Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2014-12-19

Re: Recent Linus' tree, kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1436!

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2014-12-19 12:01:29
Also in: linux-fsdevel
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 Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:34:00PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
Hi,

It looks like there's a strange refcount underflow in VFS/socket code.
The proggie [1] crashes the recent Linus' tree (d790be38 Merge tag
'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux) 
with the calltrace [2].

If in the proggie the psk is replaced with non-socket descriptor the
issue doesn't appear.
Gyah... mismerge on cherry-pick.  My fault - ->i_fop assignment should've
been removed from sock_alloc_file() in bd9b51.  Could you verify that the
following recovers the things?
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 70bbde6..a2c33a4 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@ struct file *sock_alloc_file(struct socket *sock, int flags, const char *dname)
 	path.mnt = mntget(sock_mnt);
 
 	d_instantiate(path.dentry, SOCK_INODE(sock));
-	SOCK_INODE(sock)->i_fop = &socket_file_ops;
 
 	file = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE,
 		  &socket_file_ops);
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