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af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields

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Using bit fields is dangerous on ppc64/sparc64, as the compiler [1]
uses 64bit instructions to manipulate them.
If the 64bit word includes any atomic_t or spinlock_t, we can lose
critical concurrent changes.

This is happening in af_unix, where unix_sk(sk)->gc_candidate/
gc_maybe_cycle/lock share the same 64bit word.

This leads to fatal deadlock, as one/several cpus spin forever
on a spinlock that will never be available again.

A safer way would be to use a long to store flags.
This way we are sure compiler/arch wont do bad things.

As we own unix_gc_lock spinlock when clearing or setting bits,
we can use the non atomic __set_bit()/__clear_bit().

recursion_level can share the same 64bit location with the spinlock,
as it is set only with this spinlock held.

[1] bug fixed in gcc-4.8.0 :
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52080

Reported-by: Ambrose Feinstein <ambrose@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2013-05-01 05:24:03 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent c3b28ea369
commit 60bc851ae5
2 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions
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include/net/af_unix.h
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@ -57,9 +57,10 @@ struct unix_sock {
struct list_head link;
atomic_long_t inflight;
spinlock_t lock;
unsigned int gc_candidate : 1;
unsigned int gc_maybe_cycle : 1;
unsigned char recursion_level;
unsigned long gc_flags;
#define UNIX_GC_CANDIDATE 0
#define UNIX_GC_MAYBE_CYCLE 1
struct socket_wq peer_wq;
};
#define unix_sk(__sk) ((struct unix_sock *)__sk)