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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nicstange@gmail.com
Cc: edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net, socket, socket_wq: fix missing initialization of flags
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:39:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151230.163915.990334768673899184.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziwtphdo.fsf_-_@gmail.com>

From: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:29:55 +0100

> Fixes: ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection")
> 
> Commit ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection") from
> the current 4.4 release cycle introduced a new flags member in
> struct socket_wq and moved SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE and SOCKWQ_ASYNC_WAITDATA
> from struct socket's flags member into that new place.
> 
> Unfortunately, the new flags field is never initialized properly, at least
> not for the struct socket_wq instance created in sock_alloc_inode().
> 
> One particular issue I encountered because of this is that my GNU Emacs
> failed to draw anything on my desktop -- i.e. what I got is a transparent
> window, including the title bar. Bisection lead to the commit mentioned
> above and further investigation by means of strace told me that Emacs
> is indeed speaking to my Xorg through an O_ASYNC AF_UNIX socket. This is
> reproducible 100% of times and the fact that properly initializing the
> struct socket_wq ->flags fixes the issue leads me to the conclusion that
> somehow SOCKWQ_ASYNC_WAITDATA got set in the uninitialized ->flags,
> preventing my Emacs from receiving any SIGIO's due to data becoming
> available and it got stuck.
> 
> Make sock_alloc_inode() set the newly created struct socket_wq's ->flags
> member to zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>

Applied, but please in the future please put the Fixes: tag right
above the first signoff/ack, like this:

Fixes: ceb5d58b2170 ("net: fix sock_wake_async() rcu protection")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-27 20:00 [PATCH] net, socket, socket_wq: fix missing initialization of flags Nicolai Stange
2015-12-28 17:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-29 12:29   ` [PATCH v2] " Nicolai Stange
2015-12-29 19:03     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-30 21:39     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-12-31 10:53       ` Nicolai Stange

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