netdev - [PATCH net 1/7] mptcp: fix possible deadlock in subflow_error

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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:29:24 +0100
From:   Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
To:     mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Mengen Sun <mengensun@...cent.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/7] mptcp: fix possible deadlock in
 subflow_error_report

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Christoph reported a possible deadlock while the TCP stack
destroys an unaccepted subflow due to an incoming reset: the
MPTCP socket error path tries to acquire the msk-level socket
lock while TCP still owns the listener socket accept queue
spinlock, and the reverse dependency already exists in the
TCP stack.

Note that the above is actually a lockdep false positive, as
the chain involves two separate sockets. A different per-socket
lockdep key will address the issue, but such a change will be
quite invasive.

Instead, we can simply stop earlier the socket error handling
for orphaned or unaccepted subflows, breaking the critical
lockdep chain. Error handling in such a scenario is a no-op.

Fixes: 15cc10453398 ("mptcp: deliver ssk errors to msk")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/355
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
---
 net/mptcp/subflow.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
index 4ae1a7304cf0..5070dc33675d 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c
@@ -1432,6 +1432,13 @@ static void subflow_error_report(struct sock *ssk)
 {
 	struct sock *sk = mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssk)->conn;
 
+	/* bail early if this is a no-op, so that we avoid introducing a
+	 * problematic lockdep dependency between TCP accept queue lock
+	 * and msk socket spinlock
+	 */
+	if (!sk->sk_socket)
+		return;
+
 	mptcp_data_lock(sk);
 	if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk))
 		__mptcp_error_report(sk);

-- 
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