rds: tcp: Sequence teardown of listen and acceptor sockets to avoid races

Commit a93d01f5777e ("RDS: TCP: avoid bad page reference in
rds_tcp_listen_data_ready") added the function
rds_tcp_listen_sock_def_readable()  to handle the case when a
partially set-up acceptor socket drops into rds_tcp_listen_data_ready().
However, if the listen socket (rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock) is itself going
through a tear-down via rds_tcp_listen_stop(), the (*ready)() will be
null and we would hit a panic  of the form
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
  IP:           (null)
   :
  ? rds_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x59/0xb0 [rds_tcp]
  tcp_data_queue+0x39d/0x5b0
  tcp_rcv_established+0x2e5/0x660
  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x122/0x220
  tcp_v4_rcv+0x8b7/0x980
    :
In the above case, it is not fatal to encounter a NULL value for
ready- we should just drop the packet and let the flush of the
acceptor thread finish gracefully.

In general, the tear-down sequence for listen() and accept() socket
that is ensured by this commit is:
     rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL; /* prevent any new accepts */
     In rds_tcp_listen_stop():
         serialize with, and prevent, further callbacks using lock_sock()
         flush rds_wq
         flush acceptor workq
         sock_release(listen socket)

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index fbf807a0cc4abd027262eef2c8f29d75f25a976b..22569007677357ba40347ee46e6584c683de2597 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -484,9 +484,10 @@ static void __net_exit rds_tcp_exit_net(struct net *net)
         * we do need to clean up the listen socket here.
         */
        if (rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock) {
-               rds_tcp_listen_stop(rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock);
+               struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
+
                rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL;
-               flush_work(&rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
+               rds_tcp_listen_stop(lsock, &rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
        }
 }
 
@@ -523,10 +524,10 @@ static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net *net)
        struct rds_tcp_connection *tc, *_tc;
        LIST_HEAD(tmp_list);
        struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = net_generic(net, rds_tcp_netid);
+       struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
 
-       rds_tcp_listen_stop(rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock);
        rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL;
-       flush_work(&rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
+       rds_tcp_listen_stop(lsock, &rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
        spin_lock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
        list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, &rds_tcp_conn_list, t_tcp_node) {
                struct net *c_net = tc->t_cpath->cp_conn->c_net;
@@ -546,8 +547,12 @@ static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net *net)
 void *rds_tcp_listen_sock_def_readable(struct net *net)
 {
        struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = net_generic(net, rds_tcp_netid);
+       struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
+
+       if (!lsock)
+               return NULL;
 
-       return rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock->sk->sk_user_data;
+       return lsock->sk->sk_user_data;
 }
 
 static int rds_tcp_dev_event(struct notifier_block *this,

diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.h b/net/rds/tcp.h
index 9a1cc890657679798cf58888c42d5bb2372f0fef..56ea6620fcf97ce40d0926089b5e5b188ea1a1fe 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rds/tcp.h
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ void rds_tcp_state_change(struct sock *sk);
 
 /* tcp_listen.c */
 struct socket *rds_tcp_listen_init(struct net *);
-void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *);
+void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock, struct work_struct *acceptor);
 void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct sock *sk);
 int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct socket *sock);
 int rds_tcp_keepalive(struct socket *sock);

diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
index 67d0929c7d3d0c97ed209af9a67b4d83343c3de1..2c69a508a693f02ee90c604e935802cce3b7eb97 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct sock *sk)
         * before it has been accepted and the accepter has set up their
         * data_ready.. we only want to queue listen work for our listening
         * socket
+        *
+        * (*ready)() may be null if we are racing with netns delete, and
+        * the listen socket is being torn down.
         */
        if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN)
                rds_tcp_accept_work(sk);
@@ -231,7 +234,8 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct sock *sk)
 
 out:
        read_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
-       ready(sk);
+       if (ready)
+               ready(sk);
 }
 
 struct socket *rds_tcp_listen_init(struct net *net)
@@ -271,7 +275,7 @@ out:
        return NULL;
 }
 
-void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock)
+void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock, struct work_struct *acceptor)
 {
        struct sock *sk;
 
@@ -292,5 +296,6 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock)
 
        /* wait for accepts to stop and close the socket */
        flush_workqueue(rds_wq);
+       flush_work(acceptor);
        sock_release(sock);
 }