Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753078AbaLEWxu (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:53:50 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54009 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752447AbaLEWqM (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:46:12 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Bohac , Arnd Bergmann , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.17 026/122] ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx_recvmsg Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:43:20 -0800 Message-Id: <20141205223309.366183236@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.3 In-Reply-To: <20141205223305.514276242@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141205223305.514276242@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jiri Bohac [ Upstream commit 01462405f0c093b2f8dfddafcadcda6c9e4c5cdf ] This fixes an old regression introduced by commit b0d0d915 (ipx: remove the BKL). When a recvmsg syscall blocks waiting for new data, no data can be sent on the same socket with sendmsg because ipx_recvmsg() sleeps with the socket locked. This breaks mars-nwe (NetWare emulator): - the ncpserv process reads the request using recvmsg - ncpserv forks and spawns nwconn - ncpserv calls a (blocking) recvmsg and waits for new requests - nwconn deadlocks in sendmsg on the same socket Commit b0d0d915 has simply replaced BKL locking with lock_sock/release_sock. Unlike now, BKL got unlocked while sleeping, so a blocking recvmsg did not block a concurrent sendmsg. Only keep the socket locked while actually working with the socket data and release it prior to calling skb_recv_datagram(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipx/af_ipx.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c +++ b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c @@ -1764,6 +1764,7 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *ioc struct ipxhdr *ipx = NULL; struct sk_buff *skb; int copied, rc; + bool locked = true; lock_sock(sk); /* put the autobinding in */ @@ -1790,6 +1791,8 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *ioc if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED)) goto out; + release_sock(sk); + locked = false; skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &rc); if (!skb) { @@ -1826,7 +1829,8 @@ static int ipx_recvmsg(struct kiocb *ioc out_free: skb_free_datagram(sk, skb); out: - release_sock(sk); + if (locked) + release_sock(sk); return rc; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/