netdev - Re: netlink: Add netlink_bound helper and use it in netlink

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Date:	Sun, 27 Sep 2015 03:41:10 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, cwang@...pensource.com,
	tom@...bertland.com, kafai@...com, kernel-team@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, tgraf@...g.ch, sfeldma@...il.com
Subject: Re: netlink: Add netlink_bound helper and use it in netlink_getname

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > @@ -1628,7 +1632,7 @@ static int netlink_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
> >  		nladdr->nl_pid = nlk->dst_portid;
> >  		nladdr->nl_groups = netlink_group_mask(nlk->dst_group);
> >  	} else {
> > -		nladdr->nl_pid = nlk->portid;
> > +		nladdr->nl_pid = netlink_bound(nlk) ? nlk->portid : 0;
> >  		nladdr->nl_groups = nlk->groups ? nlk->groups[0] : 0;
> >  	}
> >  	return 0;
> 
> So, this is really weird because netlink_getname() doens't participate
> in the autobind race and thus it's perfectly fine for it to not worry
> about whether ->bound is set or the memory barrier - whoever its
> caller may be, the caller is of course responsible for ensuring that
> the port is bound and visible if it expects to read back the number -
> ie. if the caller doesn't know (in memory ordering sense) that
> bind/connect/sendmsg succeeded, it of course can't expect to reliably
> read back the port number.  getname never needed the barrier.  The
> above is shifting synchronization from the source to its users.  This
> is a bad thing to do.

Thread 1			Thread 2
sendmsg				getsockname
	netlink_autobind		netlink_getname

Thread 2 should not have to do anything special to guarantee that
getsockname does not return garbage.  It must either be the bound
portid if the autobind completed in thread 1 and is visible or it
should return zero.

As it stands thread 2 may see a portid belonging to somebody else
if it catches the autobind in thread 1 trying different portids
while roving.

Cheers,
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