[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "SUNRPC: Fix races in xs_nospace()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    SUNRPC: Fix races in xs_nospace()

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 643fa7c13836ddb2783b5c011d1132612ef6fa9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:15:54 -0500
Subject: SUNRPC: Fix races in xs_nospace()

commit 06ea0bfe6e6043cb56a78935a19f6f8ebc636226 upstream.

When a send failure occurs due to the socket being out of buffer space,
we call xs_nospace() in order to have the RPC task wait until the
socket has drained enough to make it worth while trying again.
The current patch fixes a race in which the socket is drained before
we get round to setting up the machinery in xs_nospace(), and which
is reported to cause hangs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140210170315.33dfc621@notabene.brown
Fixes: a9a6b52ee1ba (SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer...)
Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index c50ac35..01adf5e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ static int xs_nospace(struct rpc_task *task)
 	struct rpc_rqst *req = task->tk_rqstp;
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = req->rq_xprt;
 	struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct sock_xprt, xprt);
+	struct sock *sk = transport->inet;
 	int ret = -EAGAIN;

 	dprintk("RPC: %5u xmit incomplete (%u left of %u)\n",
@@ -518,7 +519,7 @@ static int xs_nospace(struct rpc_task *task)
 			 * window size
 			 */
 			set_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &transport->sock->flags);
-			transport->inet->sk_write_pending++;
+			sk->sk_write_pending++;
 			/* ...and wait for more buffer space */
 			xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(task, xs_nospace_callback);
 		}
@@ -528,6 +529,9 @@ static int xs_nospace(struct rpc_task *task)
 	}

 	spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
+
+	/* Race breaker in case memory is freed before above code is called */
+	sk->sk_write_space(sk);
 	return ret;
 }

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1.8.3.2