From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Qihang Tang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net] af_unix: Remove gc_in_progress check in unix_peek_fpl().
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 16:27:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104162858.991930-1-kuniyu@google.com> (raw)
unix_vertex_dead() and unix_peek_fpl() are synchronised
with unix_peek_seq to prevent GC from purging a live
socket's recvq.
unix_peek_fpl() skips the synchronisation if gc_in_progress
is false.
However, on weakly ordered arch, GC might have already
started working while the write to gc_in_progress is
buffered.
This does not occur on x86.
This is an unlikely path that happens only when AF_UNIX
fd is peeked so not worth complicating.
Instead of adding memory barriers in unix_gc() and
unix_peek_fpl(), let's simply remove the broken short-circuit.
Fixes: e5b31d988a41 ("af_unix: Give up GC if MSG_PEEK intervened.")
Reported-by: Qihang Tang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
The reporter reproduced it on arm64 QEMU.
---
net/unix/garbage.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/unix/garbage.c b/net/unix/garbage.c
index a0b515354e8b..fbeabfb0db34 100644
--- a/net/unix/garbage.c
+++ b/net/unix/garbage.c
@@ -329,9 +329,6 @@ void unix_peek_fpl(struct scm_fp_list *fpl)
if (!fpl || !fpl->count_unix)
return;
- if (!READ_ONCE(gc_in_progress))
- return;
-
/* Invalidate the final refcnt check in unix_vertex_dead(). */
spin_lock(&unix_peek_lock);
raw_write_seqcount_barrier(&unix_peek_seq);
--
2.56.0.385.gac671c819a-goog
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