netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: fix recursive locking warning in sctp_do

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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 16:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: fix recursive locking warning in
 sctp_do_peeloff

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:56:56 +0800

> Dmitry got the following recursive locking report while running syzkaller
> fuzzer, the Call Trace:
 ...
> This warning is caused by the lock held by sctp_getsockopt() is on one
> socket, while the other lock that sctp_close() is getting later is on
> the newly created (which failed) socket during peeloff operation.
> 
> This patch is to avoid this warning by use lock_sock with subclass
> SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING as Wang Cong and Marcelo's suggestion.
> 
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied.