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Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:19:51 +0100
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@....net>
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, alex.popov@...ux.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout()

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 03:32:02PM +0100, Norbert Slusarek wrote:
>From: Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@....net>
>Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 13:14:05 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout()
>
>A possible locking issue in vsock_connect_timeout() was recognized by
>Eric Dumazet which might cause a null pointer dereference in
>vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(). This patch assures that
>vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() will be called within the lock, so a race
>condition won't occur which could result in vsk->transport to be set to NULL.
>
>Fixes: 380feae0def7 ("vsock: cancel packets when failing to connect")

I have a doubt about the tag to use, since until we introduced 
transports in commit c0cfa2d8a788 ("vsock: add multi-transports 
support") this issue didn't cause many problems.

But it must be said that in the commit 380feae0def7 ("vsock: cancel 
packets when failing to connect") the vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() was 
called with the lock held in vsock_stream_connect() and without lock in 
vsock_connect_timeout(), so maybe this tag is okay.

Anyway, the patch LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>


>Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>Signed-off-by: Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@....net>
>---
> net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>index 6894f21dc147..ad7dd9d93b5b 100644
>--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>@@ -1243,7 +1243,6 @@ static void vsock_connect_timeout(struct work_struct *work)
> {
> 	struct sock *sk;
> 	struct vsock_sock *vsk;
>-	int cancel = 0;
>
> 	vsk = container_of(work, struct vsock_sock, connect_work.work);
> 	sk = sk_vsock(vsk);
>@@ -1254,11 +1253,9 @@ static void vsock_connect_timeout(struct work_struct *work)
> 		sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
> 		sk->sk_err = ETIMEDOUT;
> 		sk->sk_error_report(sk);
>-		cancel = 1;
>+		vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);
> 	}
> 	release_sock(sk);
>-	if (cancel)
>-		vsock_transport_cancel_pkt(vsk);
>
> 	sock_put(sk);
> }
>--
>2.30.0
>