This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6/udp: Use the correct variable to determine non-blocking condition
to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv6-udp-use-the-correct-variable-to-determine-non-blocking-condition.patch and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm tree, please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it. >From 426f44b84f96244914a642bb63d40e1e0f064672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zh...@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:43:39 +0000 Subject: ipv6/udp: Use the correct variable to determine non-blocking condition From: Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zh...@windriver.com> [ Upstream commit 32c90254ed4a0c698caa0794ebb4de63fcc69631 ] udpv6_recvmsg() function is not using the correct variable to determine whether or not the socket is in non-blocking operation, this will lead to unexpected behavior when a UDP checksum error occurs. Consider a non-blocking udp receive scenario: when udpv6_recvmsg() is called by sock_common_recvmsg(), MSG_DONTWAIT bit of flags variable in udpv6_recvmsg() is cleared by "flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT" in this call: err = sk->sk_prot->recvmsg(iocb, sk, msg, size, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, &addr_len); i.e. with udpv6_recvmsg() getting these values: int noblock = flags & MSG_DONTWAIT int flags = flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT So, when udp checksum error occurs, the execution will go to csum_copy_err, and then the problem happens: csum_copy_err: ............... if (flags & MSG_DONTWAIT) return -EAGAIN; goto try_again; ............... But it will always go to try_again as MSG_DONTWAIT has been cleared from flags at call time -- only noblock contains the original value of MSG_DONTWAIT, so the test should be: if (noblock) return -EAGAIN; This is also consistent with what the ipv4/udp code does. Signed-off-by: Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zh...@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- net/ipv6/udp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ csum_copy_err: } release_sock(sk); - if (flags & MSG_DONTWAIT) + if (noblock) return -EAGAIN; goto try_again; } Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from xufeng.zh...@windriver.com are /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/udp-recvmsg-clear-msg_trunc-flag-when-starting-over-for-a-new-packet.patch /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/ipv6-udp-use-the-correct-variable-to-determine-non-blocking-condition.patch _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable