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authorTuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>2020-05-13 19:33:17 +0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-05-13 12:33:18 -0700
commit0771d7df819284d46cf5cfb57698621b503ec17f (patch)
tree7278b543dc60c8d639c9f865af7970570ad6c0fa /net
parentc72685894506a3fec5978b9b11b94069a7d1c995 (diff)
tipc: fix memory leak in service subscripting
Upon receipt of a service subscription request from user via a topology connection, one 'sub' object will be allocated in kernel, so it will be able to send an event of the service if any to the user correspondingly then. Also, in case of any failure, the connection will be shutdown and all the pertaining 'sub' objects will be freed. However, there is a race condition as follows resulting in memory leak: receive-work connection send-work | | | sub-1 |<------//-------| | sub-2 |<------//-------| | | |<---------------| evt for sub-x sub-3 |<------//-------| | : : : : : : | /--------| | | | * peer closed | | | | | | | |<-------X-------| evt for sub-y | | |<===============| sub-n |<------/ X shutdown | -> orphan | | That is, the 'receive-work' may get the last subscription request while the 'send-work' is shutting down the connection due to peer close. We had a 'lock' on the connection, so the two actions cannot be carried out simultaneously. If the last subscription is allocated e.g. 'sub-n', before the 'send-work' closes the connection, there will be no issue at all, the 'sub' objects will be freed. In contrast the last subscription will become orphan since the connection was closed, and we released all references. This commit fixes the issue by simply adding one test if the connection remains in 'connected' state right after we obtain the connection lock, then a subscription object can be created as usual, otherwise we ignore it. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com> Reported-by: Thang Ngo <thang.h.ngo@dektech.com.au> Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/topsrv.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/topsrv.c b/net/tipc/topsrv.c
index 73dbed0c4b6b..931c426673c0 100644
--- a/net/tipc/topsrv.c
+++ b/net/tipc/topsrv.c
@@ -400,7 +400,9 @@ static int tipc_conn_rcv_from_sock(struct tipc_conn *con)
return -EWOULDBLOCK;
if (ret == sizeof(s)) {
read_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
- ret = tipc_conn_rcv_sub(srv, con, &s);
+ /* RACE: the connection can be closed in the meantime */
+ if (likely(connected(con)))
+ ret = tipc_conn_rcv_sub(srv, con, &s);
read_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
if (!ret)
return 0;