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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2015-09-18 19:16:50 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-20 22:55:31 -0700
commit1f770c0a09da855a2b51af6d19de97fb955eca85 (patch)
treeeeb43c3ce6917390ce6e55b48990d2ba32aaf9cc /net/netlink/af_netlink.h
parent3ea79249e81e5ed051f2e6480cbde896d99046e8 (diff)
netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID
The commit c0bb07df7d981e4091432754e30c9c720e2c0c78 ("netlink: Reset portid after netlink_insert failure") introduced a race condition where if two threads try to autobind the same socket one of them may end up with a zero port ID. This led to kernel deadlocks that were observed by multiple people. This patch reverts that commit and instead fixes it by introducing a separte rhash_portid variable so that the real portid is only set after the socket has been successfully hashed. Fixes: c0bb07df7d98 ("netlink: Reset portid after netlink_insert failure") Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.h b/net/netlink/af_netlink.h
index df9a06090db6..80b2b7526dfd 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.h
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct netlink_ring {
struct netlink_sock {
/* struct sock has to be the first member of netlink_sock */
struct sock sk;
+ u32 rhash_portid;
u32 portid;
u32 dst_portid;
u32 dst_group;