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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Cc: lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/sctp/socket.c: add missing sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:12:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061126101254.GW3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456965D5.1000302@redhat.com>

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:00:53PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> This patch adds a missing sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore when returning
> from "if(space_left<addrlen)" condition.
>                 if (copy_to_user(*to, &temp, addrlen)) {
> -                       sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sctp_local_addr_lock,
> -                                                   flags);
> -                       return -EFAULT;
> +                       err = -EFAULT;
> +                       goto unlock;

> +       sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sctp_local_addr_lock, flags);
> +       return err;
>  }

You do realize that it's obviously still badly broken, don't you?
copy_to_user() under a spinlock is a recipe for deadlock, especially
if you've got interrupts disabled...

I have a beginning of locking fixes in that shitpile, but it's incomplete
and bloody painful ;-/

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-26 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-26 10:00 [2.6 patch] net/sctp/socket.c: add missing sctp_spin_unlock_irqrestore Eugene Teo
2006-11-26 10:12 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-11-26 10:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-26 12:37   ` Eugene Teo

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