On 05/18/2016 04:03 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 15:03 +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: >> ->sk_shutdown bits share one bitfield with some other bits in sock struct, >> such as ->sk_no_check_[r,t]x, ->sk_userlocks ... >> sock_setsockopt() may write to these bits, while holding the socket lock. >> >> In case of AF_UNIX sockets, we change ->sk_shutdown bits while holding only >> unix_state_lock(). So concurrent setsockopt() and shutdown() may lead >> to corrupting these bits. >> >> Fix this by moving ->sk_shutdown bits out of bitfield into a separate byte. >> This will not change the 'struct sock' size since ->sk_shutdown moved into >> previously unused 16-bit hole. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> >> Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> >> --- >> include/net/sock.h | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h >> index c9c8b19..04dc131 100644 >> --- a/include/net/sock.h >> +++ b/include/net/sock.h >> @@ -383,8 +383,7 @@ struct sock { >> int sk_sndbuf; >> struct sk_buff_head sk_write_queue; >> kmemcheck_bitfield_begin(flags); >> - unsigned int sk_shutdown : 2, > > > Please replace by a padding, so that sk_protocol is sill a byte, > not 8 bits spaning 2 bytes in memory.
I think, it would be better to have something like this: u16 sk_type; u8 sk_protocol; kmemcheck_bitfield_begin(flags); u8 sk_no_check_tx : 1, sk_no_check_rx : 1, sk_userlocks : 4, kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags);