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Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:46:37 +0800
From:   Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@...il.com>
To:     hare@...e.de
Cc:     ak@...pesta-tech.com, borisp@...dia.com, chuck.lever@...cle.com,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, simo@...hat.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        18801353760@....com, paskripkin@...il.com,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/5] net: Add distinct sk_psock field

>On 4/18/22 18:49, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> The sk_psock facility populates the sk_user_data field with the
>> address of an extra bit of metadata. User space sockets never
>> populate the sk_user_data field, so this has worked out fine.
>> 
>> However, kernel consumers such as the RPC client and server do
>> populate the sk_user_data field. The sk_psock() function cannot tell
>> that the content of sk_user_data does not point to psock metadata,
>> so it will happily return a pointer to something else, cast to a
>> struct sk_psock.
>> 
>> Thus kernel consumers and psock currently cannot co-exist.
>> 
>> We could educate sk_psock() to return NULL if sk_user_data does
>> not point to a struct sk_psock. However, a more general solution
>> that enables full co-existence psock and other uses of sk_user_data
>> might be more interesting.
>> 
>> Move the struct sk_psock address to its own pointer field so that
>> the contents of the sk_user_data field is preserved.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/skmsg.h |    2 +-
>>   include/net/sock.h    |    4 +++-
>>   net/core/skmsg.c      |    6 +++---
>>   3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> 
>Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hannes

In Patchwork website, this patch fails the checks on
netdev/cc_maintainers.

So maybe you need CC folks pointed out by
scripts/get_maintainer.pl script, which is suggested
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>.

What's more, Syskaller reports
refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2).

In this bug, the problem is that smc and psock, 
both use sk_user_data field to save their 
private data. So they will treat field in their own way.

> in smc_switch_to_fallback(), and set smc->clcsock->sk_user_data
> to origin smc in smc_fback_replace_callbacks().
> 
> Later, sk_psock_get() will treat the smc->clcsock->sk_user_data
> as sk_psock type, which triggers the refcnt warning.

I have tested this patch and the reproducer did not trigger any issue.
For more details, you can check the email
[PATCH] smc: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)