Re: [PATCH net] kcm: do not attach PF_KCM sockets to avoid deadlock
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-08-30 22:55:39
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-08-30 22:55:39
From: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:29:31 -0700
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
syzkaller had no problem to trigger a deadlock, attaching a KCM socket
to another one (or itself). (original syzkaller report was a very
confusing lockdep splat during a sendmsg())
It seems KCM claims to only support TCP, but no enforcement is done,
so we might need to add additional checks.
Fixes: ab7ac4eb9832 ("kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.