From: Jia He <justin...@arm.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 09:38:28 +0800
> When client on the host tries to connect(SOCK_STREAM, O_NONBLOCK) to the > server on the guest, there will be a panic on a ThunderX2 (armv8a server): ... > The race condition is as follows: > Task1 Task2 > ===== ===== > __sock_release virtio_transport_recv_pkt > __vsock_release vsock_find_bound_socket (found sk) > lock_sock_nested > vsock_remove_sock > sock_orphan > sk_set_socket(sk, NULL) > sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK > ... > release_sock > lock_sock > virtio_transport_recv_connecting > sk->sk_socket->state (panic!) > > The root cause is that vsock_find_bound_socket can't hold the lock_sock, > so there is a small race window between vsock_find_bound_socket() and > lock_sock(). If __vsock_release() is running in another task, > sk->sk_socket will be set to NULL inadvertently. > > This fixes it by checking sk->sk_shutdown(suggested by Stefano) after > lock_sock since sk->sk_shutdown is set to SHUTDOWN_MASK under the > protection of lock_sock_nested. > > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin...@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
