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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2008-11-09 15:23:57 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-09 11:17:33 -0800
commit6209344f5a3795d34b7f2c0061f49802283b6bdd (patch)
tree5c037ddbb8caac17b0c6101c9ab86387df106d41 /kernel
parent058e3739f6b0753696db1952378de9e8d2a11735 (diff)
net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector
Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't change during the GC. This is only half true, nothing can be received from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file descriptors referring to it. This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the "inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't previously called. This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs < inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run. Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which are candidates themselves. Duplicating the file references in unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued. Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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