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From: Nagendra Tomar <tomer_iisc@yahoo.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.35.7] net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event()
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:55:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <563428.39597.qm@web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)



The condition (3rd arg) passed to sk_wait_event() in sk_stream_wait_memory() and 
sk_stream_wait_connect() are incorrect.
The incorrect check in sk_stream_wait_memory() causes the following soft lockup 
in tcp_sendmsg() when the global tcp memory pool has exhausted. The check in 
sk_stream_wait_connect() was found by code audit.
   
>>> snip <<<
localhost kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 11s! [sshd:6429]
localhost kernel: CPU 3:
localhost kernel: 
localhost kernel: Call Trace:
localhost kernel:  [sk_stream_wait_memory+0x1b1/0x200] 
sk_stream_wait_memory+0x1b1/0x200
localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff802557c0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
localhost kernel:  [ipv6:tcp_sendmsg+0x6e6/0xe90] tcp_sendmsg+0x6e6/0xce0
localhost kernel:  [sock_aio_write+0x126/0x140] sock_aio_write+0x126/0x140
localhost kernel:  [xfs:do_sync_write+0xf1/0x130] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x130
localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff802557c0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
localhost kernel:  [hrtimer_start+0xe3/0x170] hrtimer_start+0xe3/0x170
localhost kernel:  [vfs_write+0x185/0x190] vfs_write+0x185/0x190
localhost kernel:  [sys_write+0x50/0x90] sys_write+0x50/0x90
localhost kernel:  [system_call+0x7e/0x83] system_call+0x7e/0x83
>>> snip <<<

What is happening is, that the sk_wait_event() condition passed from
sk_stream_wait_memory() evaluates to true for the case of tcp global memory
exhaustion. This is because both sk_stream_memory_free() and vm_wait are true
which causes sk_wait_event() to *not* call schedule_timeout(). 
Hence sk_stream_wait_memory() returns immediately to the caller w/o sleeping.
This causes the caller to again try allocation, which again fails and again
calls sk_stream_wait_memory(), and so on.

Signed-off-by: Nagendra Singh Tomar <tomer_iisc@yahoo.com>
---
--- linux-2.6.35.7/net/core/stream.c.orig 2010-03-23 23:46:45.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.35.7/net/core/stream.c 2010-03-24 00:21:09.000000000 +0530
@@ -73,9 +73,8 @@ int sk_stream_wait_connect(struct sock *
   prepare_to_wait(sk_sleep(sk), &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
   sk->sk_write_pending++;
   done = sk_wait_event(sk, timeo_p,
-         !sk->sk_err &&
-         !((1 << sk->sk_state) &
-           ~(TCPF_ESTABLISHED | TCPF_CLOSE_WAIT)));
+         ((1 << sk->sk_state) &
+           (TCPF_ESTABLISHED | TCPF_CLOSE_WAIT)));
   finish_wait(sk_sleep(sk), &wait);
   sk->sk_write_pending--;
  } while (!done);
@@ -144,10 +143,9 @@ int sk_stream_wait_memory(struct sock *s
 
   set_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &sk->sk_socket->flags);
   sk->sk_write_pending++;
-  sk_wait_event(sk, &current_timeo, !sk->sk_err &&
-        !(sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN) &&
-        sk_stream_memory_free(sk) &&
-        vm_wait);
+  sk_wait_event(sk, &current_timeo, sk->sk_err ||
+        (sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN) ||
+        (sk_stream_memory_free(sk) && !vm_wait));
   sk->sk_write_pending--;
 
   if (vm_wait) {



      

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-02  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-02  2:55 Nagendra Tomar [this message]
2010-10-02  4:27 ` David Miller
2010-10-02  8:22 Nagendra Tomar
2010-10-02  8:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-02  8:34   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-02 11:49     ` Nagendra Tomar
2010-10-02 20:27 ` David Miller

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