From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru
Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15541] New: POLLIN bit is set when there is OOB data only
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:55:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319155541.731eec28.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-15541-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:19:43 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15541
>
> Summary: POLLIN bit is set when there is OOB data only
> Product: Networking
> Version: 2.5
> Kernel Version: 2.6.28, 2.6.32, 2.6.33
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: Linux
> Tree: Mainline
> Status: NEW
> Severity: normal
> Priority: P1
> Component: IPV4
> AssignedTo: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
> ReportedBy: Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru
> CC: davem@davemloft.net
> Regression: Yes
>
>
> Starting from 2.6.28, Linux kernel has incorrect behaviour when poll() is
> called on TCP socket with out-of-band byte received.
>
> When TCP socket has OOB byte available (and no normal data), old Linux,
> Solaris, FreeBSD and other systems return POLLPRI bit without POLLRD. Starting
> from 2.6.28, Linux returns POLLRD | POLLPRI | POLLRDNORM.
>
> The broken commt is
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=c7004482e8dcb7c3c72666395cfa98a216a4fb70
> .
> Following 1-line patch fixes the problem:
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c 2010-03-15 19:13:45.000000000 +0300
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c 2010-03-15 19:13:21.000000000 +0300
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
> if (tp->urg_seq == tp->copied_seq &&
> !sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE) &&
> tp->urg_data)
> - target--;
> + target++;
>
> /* Potential race condition. If read of tp below will
> * escape above sk->sk_state, we can be illegally awaken
>
Thanks.
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2010-03-19 22:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-03-20 2:42 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 15541] New: POLLIN bit is set when there is OOB data only David Miller
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