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WANG Cong 0fb44559ff af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock
Dmitry reported a deadlock scenario:

unix_bind() path:
u->bindlock ==> sb_writer

do_splice() path:
sb_writer ==> pipe->mutex ==> u->bindlock

In the unix_bind() code path, unix_mknod() does not have to
be done with u->bindlock held, since it is a pure fs operation,
so we can just move unix_mknod() out.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 14:30:56 -05:00
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Kconfig net: Default UDP and UNIX diag to 'n'. 2012-01-07 12:13:06 -08:00
Makefile unix_diag: Write it into kbuild 2011-12-16 13:48:29 -05:00
af_unix.c af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock 2017-01-24 14:30:56 -05:00
diag.c unix_diag: fix incorrect sign extension in unix_lookup_by_ino 2016-02-19 23:49:23 -05:00
garbage.c unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct 2016-02-08 10:30:42 -05:00
sysctl_net_unix.c net: Convert uses of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2013-06-13 02:36:09 -07:00