netdev - [PATCH net] inet: fix potential deadlock in reqsk_queue

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:44:51 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] inet: fix potential deadlock in reqsk_queue_unlink()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

When replacing del_timer() with del_timer_sync(), I introduced
a deadlock condition :

reqsk_queue_unlink() is called from inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop()

inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop() can be called from many contexts,
one being the timer handler itself (reqsk_timer_handler()).

In this case, del_timer_sync() loops forever.

Simple fix is to test if timer is pending.

Fixes: 2235f2ac75fd ("inet: fix races with reqsk timers")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
Sorry for this very embarrassing bug, I should have caught it in my
tests :(

 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 05e3145f7dc3..134957159c27 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ static bool reqsk_queue_unlink(struct request_sock_queue *queue,
 	}
 
 	spin_unlock(&queue->syn_wait_lock);
-	if (del_timer_sync(&req->rsk_timer))
+	if (timer_pending(&req->rsk_timer) && del_timer_sync(&req->rsk_timer))
 		reqsk_put(req);
 	return found;
 }


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