From 60bc851ae59bfe99be6ee89d6bc50008c85ec75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 05:24:03 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/unix/garbage.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/unix') 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, ¬_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(¬_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); } -- cgit v1.2.3