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tcp/dccp: block bh before arming time_wait timer 

[ Upstream commit cfac7f836a ]

Maciej Żenczykowski reported some panics in tcp_twsk_destructor()
that might be caused by the following bug.

timewait timer is pinned to the cpu, because we want to transition
timwewait refcount from 0 to 4 in one go, once everything has been
initialized.

At the time commit ed2e923945 ("tcp/dccp: fix timewait races in timer
handling") was merged, TCP was always running from BH habdler.

After commit 5413d1babe ("net: do not block BH while processing
socket backlog") we definitely can run tcp_time_wait() from process
context.

We need to block BH in the critical section so that the pinned timer
has still its purpose.

This bug is more likely to happen under stress and when very small RTO
are used in datacenter flows.

Fixes: 5413d1babe ("net: do not block BH while processing socket backlog")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
pull/10/head
Eric Dumazet 2017-12-01 10:06:56 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 8b01623c73
commit 5fa411e855
2 changed files with 12 additions and 0 deletions
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net/dccp/minisocks.c
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@ -57,10 +57,16 @@ void dccp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo)
if (state == DCCP_TIME_WAIT)
timeo = DCCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN;
/* tw_timer is pinned, so we need to make sure BH are disabled
* in following section, otherwise timer handler could run before
* we complete the initialization.
*/
local_bh_disable();
inet_twsk_schedule(tw, timeo);
/* Linkage updates. */
__inet_twsk_hashdance(tw, sk, &dccp_hashinfo);
inet_twsk_put(tw);
local_bh_enable();
} else {
/* Sorry, if we're out of memory, just CLOSE this
* socket up. We've got bigger problems than

6
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
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@ -312,10 +312,16 @@ void tcp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo)
if (state == TCP_TIME_WAIT)
timeo = TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN;
/* tw_timer is pinned, so we need to make sure BH are disabled
* in following section, otherwise timer handler could run before
* we complete the initialization.
*/
local_bh_disable();
inet_twsk_schedule(tw, timeo);
/* Linkage updates. */
__inet_twsk_hashdance(tw, sk, &tcp_hashinfo);
inet_twsk_put(tw);
local_bh_enable();
} else {
/* Sorry, if we're out of memory, just CLOSE this
* socket up. We've got bigger problems than