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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2013-05-01 05:24:03 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-05-01 15:13:49 -0400
commit60bc851ae59bfe99be6ee89d6bc50008c85ec75d (patch)
tree5046b97e73431933b0205f5b9381fe09979ef2f4 /net/unix
parentc3b28ea36946a22469a5519977a3b79428ded4af (diff)
af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields
Using bit fields is dangerous on ppc64/sparc64, as the compiler [1] uses 64bit instructions to manipulate them. If the 64bit word includes any atomic_t or spinlock_t, we can lose critical concurrent changes. This is happening in af_unix, where unix_sk(sk)->gc_candidate/ gc_maybe_cycle/lock share the same 64bit word. This leads to fatal deadlock, as one/several cpus spin forever on a spinlock that will never be available again. A safer way would be to use a long to store flags. This way we are sure compiler/arch wont do bad things. As we own unix_gc_lock spinlock when clearing or setting bits, we can use the non atomic __set_bit()/__clear_bit(). recursion_level can share the same 64bit location with the spinlock, as it is set only with this spinlock held. [1] bug fixed in gcc-4.8.0 : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52080 Reported-by: Ambrose Feinstein <ambrose@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/unix')
-rw-r--r--net/unix/garbage.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/unix/garbage.c b/net/unix/garbage.c
index d0f6545b0010..9bc73f87f64a 100644
--- a/net/unix/garbage.c
+++ b/net/unix/garbage.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static void scan_inflight(struct sock *x, void (*func)(struct unix_sock *),
* have been added to the queues after
* starting the garbage collection
*/
- if (u->gc_candidate) {
+ if (test_bit(UNIX_GC_CANDIDATE, &u->gc_flags)) {
hit = true;
func(u);
}
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static void inc_inflight_move_tail(struct unix_sock *u)
* of the list, so that it's checked even if it was already
* passed over
*/
- if (u->gc_maybe_cycle)
+ if (test_bit(UNIX_GC_MAYBE_CYCLE, &u->gc_flags))
list_move_tail(&u->link, &gc_candidates);
}
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ void unix_gc(void)
BUG_ON(total_refs < inflight_refs);
if (total_refs == inflight_refs) {
list_move_tail(&u->link, &gc_candidates);
- u->gc_candidate = 1;
- u->gc_maybe_cycle = 1;
+ __set_bit(UNIX_GC_CANDIDATE, &u->gc_flags);
+ __set_bit(UNIX_GC_MAYBE_CYCLE, &u->gc_flags);
}
}
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void unix_gc(void)
if (atomic_long_read(&u->inflight) > 0) {
list_move_tail(&u->link, &not_cycle_list);
- u->gc_maybe_cycle = 0;
+ __clear_bit(UNIX_GC_MAYBE_CYCLE, &u->gc_flags);
scan_children(&u->sk, inc_inflight_move_tail, NULL);
}
}
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ void unix_gc(void)
*/
while (!list_empty(&not_cycle_list)) {
u = list_entry(not_cycle_list.next, struct unix_sock, link);
- u->gc_candidate = 0;
+ __clear_bit(UNIX_GC_CANDIDATE, &u->gc_flags);
list_move_tail(&u->link, &gc_inflight_list);
}