Patch "rds: tcp: Sequence teardown of listen and acceptor sockets to avoid races" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rds: tcp: Sequence teardown of listen and acceptor sockets to avoid races

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rds-tcp-sequence-teardown-of-listen-and-acceptor-sockets-to-avoid-races.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:57:35 -0800
Subject: rds: tcp: Sequence teardown of listen and acceptor sockets to avoid races

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit b21dd4506b71bdb9c5a20e759255cd2513ea7ebe ]

Commit a93d01f5777e ("RDS: TCP: avoid bad page reference in
rds_tcp_listen_data_ready") added the function
rds_tcp_listen_sock_def_readable()  to handle the case when a
partially set-up acceptor socket drops into rds_tcp_listen_data_ready().
However, if the listen socket (rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock) is itself going
through a tear-down via rds_tcp_listen_stop(), the (*ready)() will be
null and we would hit a panic  of the form
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
  IP:           (null)
   :
  ? rds_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x59/0xb0 [rds_tcp]
  tcp_data_queue+0x39d/0x5b0
  tcp_rcv_established+0x2e5/0x660
  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x122/0x220
  tcp_v4_rcv+0x8b7/0x980
    :
In the above case, it is not fatal to encounter a NULL value for
ready- we should just drop the packet and let the flush of the
acceptor thread finish gracefully.

In general, the tear-down sequence for listen() and accept() socket
that is ensured by this commit is:
     rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL; /* prevent any new accepts */
     In rds_tcp_listen_stop():
         serialize with, and prevent, further callbacks using lock_sock()
         flush rds_wq
         flush acceptor workq
         sock_release(listen socket)

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/rds/tcp.c        |   15 ++++++++++-----
 net/rds/tcp.h        |    2 +-
 net/rds/tcp_listen.c |    9 +++++++--
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -478,9 +478,10 @@ static void __net_exit rds_tcp_exit_net(
 	 * we do need to clean up the listen socket here.
 	 */
 	if (rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock) {
-		rds_tcp_listen_stop(rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock);
+		struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
+
 		rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL;
-		flush_work(&rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
+		rds_tcp_listen_stop(lsock, &rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -517,10 +518,10 @@ static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net
 	struct rds_tcp_connection *tc, *_tc;
 	LIST_HEAD(tmp_list);
 	struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = net_generic(net, rds_tcp_netid);
+	struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
 
-	rds_tcp_listen_stop(rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock);
 	rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock = NULL;
-	flush_work(&rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
+	rds_tcp_listen_stop(lsock, &rtn->rds_tcp_accept_w);
 	spin_lock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, &rds_tcp_conn_list, t_tcp_node) {
 		struct net *c_net = read_pnet(&tc->t_cpath->cp_conn->c_net);
@@ -540,8 +541,12 @@ static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net
 void *rds_tcp_listen_sock_def_readable(struct net *net)
 {
 	struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = net_generic(net, rds_tcp_netid);
+	struct socket *lsock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
+
+	if (!lsock)
+		return NULL;
 
-	return rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock->sk->sk_user_data;
+	return lsock->sk->sk_user_data;
 }
 
 static int rds_tcp_dev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
--- a/net/rds/tcp.h
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ void rds_tcp_state_change(struct sock *s
 
 /* tcp_listen.c */
 struct socket *rds_tcp_listen_init(struct net *);
-void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *);
+void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock, struct work_struct *acceptor);
 void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct sock *sk);
 int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct socket *sock);
 int rds_tcp_keepalive(struct socket *sock);
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct so
 	 * before it has been accepted and the accepter has set up their
 	 * data_ready.. we only want to queue listen work for our listening
 	 * socket
+	 *
+	 * (*ready)() may be null if we are racing with netns delete, and
+	 * the listen socket is being torn down.
 	 */
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN)
 		rds_tcp_accept_work(sk);
@@ -235,7 +238,8 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct so
 
 out:
 	read_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
-	ready(sk);
+	if (ready)
+		ready(sk);
 }
 
 struct socket *rds_tcp_listen_init(struct net *net)
@@ -275,7 +279,7 @@ out:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock)
+void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock, struct work_struct *acceptor)
 {
 	struct sock *sk;
 
@@ -296,5 +300,6 @@ void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *
 
 	/* wait for accepts to stop and close the socket */
 	flush_workqueue(rds_wq);
+	flush_work(acceptor);
 	sock_release(sock);
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/rds-tcp-sequence-teardown-of-listen-and-acceptor-sockets-to-avoid-races.patch