[PATCH RFC 1/5] net: Add distinct sk_psock field

Hawkins Jiawei
2022-07-13T04:47:09Z

>On 4/18/22 18:49, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> The sk_psock facility populates the sk_user_data field with the
>> address of an extra bit of metadata. User space sockets never
>> populate the sk_user_data field, so this has worked out fine.
>>
>> However, kernel consumers such as the RPC client and server do
>> populate the sk_user_data field. The sk_psock() function cannot tell
>> that the content of sk_user_data does not point to psock metadata,
>> so it will happily return a pointer to something else, cast to a
>> struct sk_psock.
>>
>> Thus kernel consumers and psock currently cannot co-exist.
>>
>> We could educate sk_psock() to return NULL if sk_user_data does
>> not point to a struct sk_psock. However, a more general solution
>> that enables full co-existence psock and other uses of sk_user_data
>> might be more interesting.
>>
>> Move the struct sk_psock address to its own pointer field so that
>> the contents of the sk_user_data field is preserved.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/skmsg.h | 2 +-
>> include/net/sock.h | 4 +++-
>> net/core/skmsg.c | 6 +++---
>> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hannes

In Patchwork website, this patch fails the checks on
netdev/cc_maintainers.

So maybe you need CC folks pointed out by
scripts/get_maintainer.pl script, which is suggested
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>.

What's more, Syskaller reports
refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2).

In this bug, the problem is that smc and psock,
both use sk_user_data field to save their
private data. So they will treat field in their own way.

> in smc_switch_to_fallback(), and set smc->clcsock->sk_user_data
> to origin smc in smc_fback_replace_callbacks().
>
> Later, sk_psock_get() will treat the smc->clcsock->sk_user_data
> as sk_psock type, which triggers the refcnt warning.

I have tested this patch and the reproducer did not trigger any issue.
For more details, you can check the email
[PATCH] smc: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)