netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/smc: fix TCP fallback socket release

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:24:09 +0100
From:   Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Myungho Jung <mhjungk@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/smc: fix TCP fallback socket release



On 12/18/2018 08:03 AM, Myungho Jung wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 03:58:58PM +0100, Ursula Braun wrote:
>>
> 
> Hi Ursula,
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion. I have a question on your comment.
> 
>>
>> On 12/17/2018 06:21 AM, Myungho Jung wrote:
>>> clcsock can be released while kernel_accept() references it in TCP
>>> listen worker. Also, clcsock needs to wake up before released if TCP
>>> fallback is used and the clcsock is blocked by accept. Add a lock to
>>> safely release clcsock and call kernel_sock_shutdown() to wake up
>>> clcsock from accept in smc_release().
>>
>> Thanks for your effort to solve this problem. I have some minor
>> improvement proposals:
>>
>>>
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+0bf2e01269f1274b4b03@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+e3132895630f957306bc@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>> Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>>  net/smc/af_smc.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>>  net/smc/smc.h    |  2 ++
>>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
>>> index 5fbaf1901571..5d06fb1bbccf 100644
>>> --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
>>> +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
>>> @@ -147,8 +147,14 @@ static int smc_release(struct socket *sock)
>>>  		sk->sk_shutdown |= SHUTDOWN_MASK;
>>>  	}
>>>  	if (smc->clcsock) {
>>> +		if (smc->use_fallback && sk->sk_state == SMC_LISTEN) {
>>> +			/* wake up clcsock accept */
>>> +			rc = kernel_sock_shutdown(smc->clcsock, SHUT_RDWR);
>>> +		}
>>
>> This part is not needed, since an SMC socket in state SMC_LISTEN is never
>> a use_fallback socket.
> 
> In smc_sendmsg(), set use_fallback to true if SMC socket is SMC_INIT
> state and the message has MSG_FASTOPEN flag. After this, smc_listen()
> would trigger smc_tcp_listen_work(). Is this not an expected scenario?
> Then, what is the reason for not skipping smc_sendmsg() in SMC_INIT
> state?
> 

You are right, I have not had the FASTOPEN case in mind, sorry. If we want
to allow fallback in case of FASTOPEN, we need the kernel_sock_shutdown() here
for proper cleanup. Nice!

>>
>>> +		mutex_lock(&smc->clcsock_release_lock);
>>>  		sock_release(smc->clcsock);
>>>  		smc->clcsock = NULL;
>>> +		mutex_unlock(&smc->clcsock_release_lock);
>>>  	}
>>>  	if (smc->use_fallback) {
>>>  		if (sk->sk_state != SMC_LISTEN && sk->sk_state != SMC_INIT)
>>> @@ -205,6 +211,7 @@ static struct sock *smc_sock_alloc(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
>>>  	spin_lock_init(&smc->conn.send_lock);
>>>  	sk->sk_prot->hash(sk);
>>>  	sk_refcnt_debug_inc(sk);
>>> +	mutex_init(&smc->clcsock_release_lock);
>>>  
>>>  	return sk;
>>>  }
>>> @@ -821,7 +828,7 @@ static int smc_clcsock_accept(struct smc_sock *lsmc, struct smc_sock **new_smc)
>>>  	struct socket *new_clcsock = NULL;
>>>  	struct sock *lsk = &lsmc->sk;
>>>  	struct sock *new_sk;
>>> -	int rc;
>>> +	int rc = 0;
>>
>> Without clcsock the good path should not be executed. Thus I suggest
>> to initialize with something negative like -EINVAL.
>>
>>>  
>>>  	release_sock(lsk);
>>>  	new_sk = smc_sock_alloc(sock_net(lsk), NULL, lsk->sk_protocol);
>>> @@ -834,7 +841,10 @@ static int smc_clcsock_accept(struct smc_sock *lsmc, struct smc_sock **new_smc)
>>>  	}
>>>  	*new_smc = smc_sk(new_sk);
>>>  
>>> -	rc = kernel_accept(lsmc->clcsock, &new_clcsock, 0);
>>> +	mutex_lock(&lsmc->clcsock_release_lock);
>>> +	if (lsmc->clcsock)
>>> +		rc = kernel_accept(lsmc->clcsock, &new_clcsock, 0);
>>> +	mutex_unlock(&lsmc->clcsock_release_lock);
>>>  	lock_sock(lsk);
>>>  	if  (rc < 0)
>>>  		lsk->sk_err = -rc;
>>> diff --git a/net/smc/smc.h b/net/smc/smc.h
>>> index 08786ace6010..9a2795cf5d30 100644
>>> --- a/net/smc/smc.h
>>> +++ b/net/smc/smc.h
>>> @@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ struct smc_sock {				/* smc sock container */
>>>  						 * started, waiting for unsent
>>>  						 * data to be sent
>>>  						 */
>>> +	struct mutex            clcsock_release_lock;
>>> +						/* protects clcsock */
>>
>> I suggest to be more precise: "protects clcsock of a listen socket" 
>>
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  static inline struct smc_sock *smc_sk(const struct sock *sk)
>>>
>>
>