netdev - Re: [RFC] unix: fix use-after-free in unix_dgram

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Message-ID: <56310C9B.1010608@akamai.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:57:47 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
To:	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] unix: fix use-after-free in unix_dgram_poll()

On 10/28/2015 12:46 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Rainer Weikusat <rw@...pelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> writes:
>> Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> 2)
>>>
>>> For the case of epoll() in edge triggered mode we need to ensure that
>>> when we return -EAGAIN from unix_dgram_sendmsg() when unix_recvq_full()
>>> is true, we need to add a unix_peer_wake_connect() call to guarantee a
>>> wakeup. Otherwise, we are going to potentially hang there.
>>
>> I consider this necessary.
> 
> (As already discussed privately) just doing this would open up another
> way for sockets to be enqueued on the peer_wait queue of the peer
> forever despite no one wants to be notified of write space
> availability. Here's another RFC patch addressing the issues so far plus
> this one by breaking the connection to the peer socket from the wake up
> relaying function. This has the nice additional property that the
> dgram_poll code becomes somewhat simpler as the "dequeued where we
> didn't enqueue" situation can no longer occur and the not-so-nice
> additional property that the connect and disconnect functions need to
> take the peer_wait.lock spinlock explicitly so that this lock is used to
> ensure that no two threads modifiy the private pointer of the client
> wait_queue_t.

Hmmm...I thought these were already all guarded by unix_state_lock(sk).
In any case, rest of the patch overall looks good to me.

Thanks,

-Jason

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