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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] odd checks in AF_UNIX ->recvmsg()
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:47:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190220194739.GY2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)

	Can ->recvmsg() (or ->splice_read(), for that matter)
overlap with ->release() of the socket it's reading from?

	I'd always assumed that to be impossible, but we have this
in unix_stream_read_generic():
redo:
                unix_state_lock(sk);
                if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) {
                        err = -ECONNRESET;
                        goto unlock;
                }
                last = skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
                last_len = last ? last->len : 0;
		...

and sk comes from state->socket->sk, i.e. sock->sk of unix_stream_recvmsg()
and unix_stream_splice_read().  IOW, the socket being read from.  And
SOCK_DEAD is only set by sock_orphan(), which means that socket would
have to have gone through ->release().

What am I missing and how is that supposed to be triggered?  Note that
e.g. shutdown(2) doesn't set SOCK_DEAD - its effects are in ->sk_shutdown
and the same unix_stream_read_generic() does check for those separately.

                 reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20 19:47 UTC|newest]

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