[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 207/211] af_unix: Revert 'lock_interruptible' in stream receive code

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jan 5 19:45:15 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat at mobileactivedefense.com>

[ Upstream commit 3822b5c2fc62e3de8a0f33806ff279fb7df92432 ]

With b3ca9b02b00704053a38bfe4c31dbbb9c13595d0, the AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM
receive code was changed from using mutex_lock(&u->readlock) to
mutex_lock_interruptible(&u->readlock) to prevent signals from being
delayed for an indefinite time if a thread sleeping on the mutex
happened to be selected for handling the signal. But this was never a
problem with the stream receive code (as opposed to its datagram
counterpart) as that never went to sleep waiting for new messages with the
mutex held and thus, wouldn't cause secondary readers to block on the
mutex waiting for the sleeping primary reader. As the interruptible
locking makes the code more complicated in exchange for no benefit,
change it back to using mutex_lock.

Signed-off-by: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat at mobileactivedefense.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/unix/af_unix.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 128b098..0fc6dba 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -2255,14 +2255,7 @@ static int unix_stream_read_generic(struct unix_stream_read_state *state)
 	/* Lock the socket to prevent queue disordering
 	 * while sleeps in memcpy_tomsg
 	 */
-	err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&u->readlock);
-	if (unlikely(err)) {
-		/* recvmsg() in non blocking mode is supposed to return -EAGAIN
-		 * sk_rcvtimeo is not honored by mutex_lock_interruptible()
-		 */
-		err = noblock ? -EAGAIN : -ERESTARTSYS;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	mutex_lock(&u->readlock);
 
 	if (flags & MSG_PEEK)
 		skip = sk_peek_offset(sk, flags);
@@ -2306,12 +2299,12 @@ again:
 			timeo = unix_stream_data_wait(sk, timeo, last,
 						      last_len);
 
-			if (signal_pending(current) ||
-			    mutex_lock_interruptible(&u->readlock)) {
+			if (signal_pending(current)) {
 				err = sock_intr_errno(timeo);
 				goto out;
 			}
 
+			mutex_lock(&u->readlock);
 			continue;
 unlock:
 			unix_state_unlock(sk);
-- 
1.9.1





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