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Date:   Tue, 9 Nov 2021 11:24:46 +0900
From:   Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>
To:     <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:     <benh@...zon.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
        <kuni1840@...il.com>, <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 13/13] af_unix: Relax race in unix_autobind().

From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:10:24 -0800
> On 11/6/21 2:17 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > When we bind an AF_UNIX socket without a name specified, the kernel selects
> > an available one from 0x00000 to 0xFFFFF.  unix_autobind() starts searching
> > from a number in the 'static' variable and increments it after acquiring
> > two locks.
> > 
> > If multiple processes try autobind, they obtain the same lock and check if
> > a socket in the hash list has the same name.  If not, one process uses it,
> > and all except one end up retrying the _next_ number (actually not, it may
> > be incremented by the other processes).  The more we autobind sockets in
> > parallel, the longer the latency gets.  We can avoid such a race by
> > searching for a name from a random number.
> > 
> > These show latency in unix_autobind() while 64 CPUs are simultaneously
> > autobind-ing 1024 sockets for each.
> > 
> >   Without this patch:
> > 
> >      usec          : count     distribution
> >         0          : 1176     |***                                     |
> >         2          : 3655     |***********                             |
> >         4          : 4094     |*************                           |
> >         6          : 3831     |************                            |
> >         8          : 3829     |************                            |
> >         10         : 3844     |************                            |
> >         12         : 3638     |***********                             |
> >         14         : 2992     |*********                               |
> >         16         : 2485     |*******                                 |
> >         18         : 2230     |*******                                 |
> >         20         : 2095     |******                                  |
> >         22         : 1853     |*****                                   |
> >         24         : 1827     |*****                                   |
> >         26         : 1677     |*****                                   |
> >         28         : 1473     |****                                    |
> >         30         : 1573     |*****                                   |
> >         32         : 1417     |****                                    |
> >         34         : 1385     |****                                    |
> >         36         : 1345     |****                                    |
> >         38         : 1344     |****                                    |
> >         40         : 1200     |***                                     |
> > 
> >   With this patch:
> > 
> >      usec          : count     distribution
> >         0          : 1855     |******                                  |
> >         2          : 6464     |*********************                   |
> >         4          : 9936     |********************************        |
> >         6          : 12107    |****************************************|
> >         8          : 10441    |**********************************      |
> >         10         : 7264     |***********************                 |
> >         12         : 4254     |**************                          |
> >         14         : 2538     |********                                |
> >         16         : 1596     |*****                                   |
> >         18         : 1088     |***                                     |
> >         20         : 800      |**                                      |
> >         22         : 670      |**                                      |
> >         24         : 601      |*                                       |
> >         26         : 562      |*                                       |
> >         28         : 525      |*                                       |
> >         30         : 446      |*                                       |
> >         32         : 378      |*                                       |
> >         34         : 337      |*                                       |
> >         36         : 317      |*                                       |
> >         38         : 314      |*                                       |
> >         40         : 298      |                                        |
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>
> > ---
> >  net/unix/af_unix.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > index 643f0358bf7a..55d570b23475 100644
> > --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > @@ -1075,8 +1075,7 @@ static int unix_autobind(struct sock *sk)
> >  	unsigned int new_hash, old_hash = sk->sk_hash;
> >  	struct unix_sock *u = unix_sk(sk);
> >  	struct unix_address *addr;
> > -	unsigned int retries = 0;
> > -	static u32 ordernum = 1;
> > +	u32 initnum, ordernum;
> >  	int err;
> >  
> >  	err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&u->bindlock);
> > @@ -1091,31 +1090,33 @@ static int unix_autobind(struct sock *sk)
> >  	if (!addr)
> >  		goto out;
> >  
> > +	addr->len = offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path) + 6;
> >  	addr->name->sun_family = AF_UNIX;
> >  	refcount_set(&addr->refcnt, 1);
> >  
> > +	initnum = ordernum = prandom_u32();
> >  retry:
> > -	addr->len = sprintf(addr->name->sun_path + 1, "%05x", ordernum) +
> > -		offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path) + 1;
> > +	ordernum = (ordernum + 1) & 0xFFFFF;
> > +	sprintf(addr->name->sun_path + 1, "%05x", ordernum);
> >  
> >  	new_hash = unix_abstract_hash(addr->name, addr->len, sk->sk_type);
> >  	unix_table_double_lock(old_hash, new_hash);
> > -	ordernum = (ordernum+1)&0xFFFFF;
> >  
> >  	if (__unix_find_socket_byname(sock_net(sk), addr->name, addr->len, new_hash)) {
> >  		unix_table_double_unlock(old_hash, new_hash);
> >  
> > -		/*
> > -		 * __unix_find_socket_byname() may take long time if many names
> > +		/* __unix_find_socket_byname() may take long time if many names
> >  		 * are already in use.
> >  		 */
> >  		cond_resched();
> > -		/* Give up if all names seems to be in use. */
> > -		if (retries++ == 0xFFFFF) {
> > +
> > +		if (ordernum == initnum) {
> 
> Infinite loop alert, in the likely case initnum >= 2^16

Good catch!
Thank you for reviewing.

And I'm sorry for distraction in the merge window.
I'll post v2 after that.


> 
> > +			/* Give up if all names seems to be in use. */
> >  			err = -ENOSPC;
> > -			kfree(addr);
> > +			unix_release_addr(addr);
> >  			goto out;
> >  		}
> > +
> >  		goto retry;
> >  	}
> >  
> > 

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