We sometimes observe a 'deadly embrace' type deadlock occurring
between mutually connected sockets on the same node. This happens
when the one-hour peer supervision timers happen to expire
simultaneously in both sockets.
The scenario is as follows:
CPU 1: CPU 2:
-------- --------
tipc_sk_timeout(sk1) tipc_sk_timeout(sk2)
lock(sk1.slock) lock(sk2.slock)
msg_create(probe) msg_create(probe)
unlock(sk1.slock) unlock(sk2.slock)
tipc_node_xmit_skb() tipc_node_xmit_skb()
tipc_node_xmit() tipc_node_xmit()
tipc_sk_rcv(sk2) tipc_sk_rcv(sk1)
lock(sk2.slock) lock((sk1.slock)
filter_rcv() filter_rcv()
tipc_sk_proto_rcv() tipc_sk_proto_rcv()
msg_create(probe_rsp) msg_create(probe_rsp)
tipc_sk_respond() tipc_sk_respond()
tipc_node_xmit_skb() tipc_node_xmit_skb()
tipc_node_xmit() tipc_node_xmit()
tipc_sk_rcv(sk1) tipc_sk_rcv(sk2)
lock((sk1.slock) lock((sk2.slock)
===> DEADLOCK ===> DEADLOCK
Further analysis reveals that there are at least three different
locations in the socket code where tipc_sk_respond() is called within
the context of the socket lock, with ensuing risk of similar deadlocks.
We solve this by ensuring that messages created by tipc_sk_respond()
only are sent directly if sk_lock.owned mutex is held. Otherwise they
are queued up in the socket write queue and sent after the socket lock
has been released.
v2: - Testing on mutex sk_lock.owned instead of sk_lock.slock in
tipc_sk_respond(). This is safer, since sk_lock.slock may
occasionally and briefly be held (by concurrent user contexts)
even if we are in user context.
v3: - By lowering the socket timeout to 36 ms instead of 3,600,000 and
setting up 1000 connections I could easily reproduce the deadlock
and verify that my solution works.
- When killing one of the processes I sometimes got a kernel crash
in the loop emptying the socket write queue. Realizing that there
may be concurrent processes emptying the write queue, I had to add
a test that the dequeuing actually returned a buffer. This solved
the problem.
- I tried Ying's suggestion with unconditionally adding all
CONN_MANAGER messages to the backlog queue, and it didn't work.
This is because we will often add the message to the backlog when
the socket is *not* owned, so there will be nothing triggering
execution of backlog_rcv() within acceptable time. Apart from
that, my solution solves the problem at all three locations where
this deadlock may happen, as already stated above.
Reported-by: GUNA <gbala...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com>
---
net/tipc/socket.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index 88bfcd7..e8ed3a8 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -278,7 +278,11 @@ static void tipc_sk_respond(struct sock *sk, struct
sk_buff *skb, int err)
dnode = msg_destnode(buf_msg(skb));
selector = msg_origport(buf_msg(skb));
- tipc_node_xmit_skb(sock_net(sk), skb, dnode, selector);
+
+ if (sock_owned_by_user(sk))
+ tipc_node_xmit_skb(sock_net(sk), skb, dnode, selector);
+ else
+ skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue, skb);
}
/**
@@ -1830,6 +1834,14 @@ void tipc_sk_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff_head
*inputq)
tipc_sk_enqueue(inputq, sk, dport);
spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
}
+ /* Send pending response/rejected messages, if any */
+ while (!skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_write_queue)) {
+ skb = skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_write_queue);
+ if (!skb)
+ break;
+ dnode = msg_destnode(buf_msg(skb));
+ tipc_node_xmit_skb(net, skb, dnode, dport);
+ }
sock_put(sk);
continue;
}
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