On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:48:14PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> Now sctp holds read_lock when foreach sctp_ep_hashtable without disabling
> BH. If CPU schedules to another thread A at this moment, the thread A may
> be trying to hold the write_lock with disabling BH.
>
> As BH is disabled and CPU cannot schedule back to the thread holding the
> read_lock, while the thread A keeps waiting for the read_lock. A dead
> lock would be triggered by this.
>
> This patch is to fix this dead lock by calling read_lock_bh instead to
> disable BH when holding the read_lock in sctp_for_each_endpoint.
>
> Fixes: 626d16f50f39 ("sctp: export some apis or variables for sctp_diag and
> reuse some for proc")
> Reported-by: Xiumei Mu <x...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
Similar is done for proc interface already (sctp_eps_seq_show).
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/sctp/socket.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index f16c8d9..30aa0a5 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -4622,13 +4622,13 @@ int sctp_for_each_endpoint(int (*cb)(struct
> sctp_endpoint *, void *),
>
> for (head = sctp_ep_hashtable; hash < sctp_ep_hashsize;
> hash++, head++) {
> - read_lock(&head->lock);
> + read_lock_bh(&head->lock);
> sctp_for_each_hentry(epb, &head->chain) {
> err = cb(sctp_ep(epb), p);
> if (err)
> break;
> }
> - read_unlock(&head->lock);
> + read_unlock_bh(&head->lock);
> }
>
> return err;
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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