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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: fs, net: deadlock between bind/splice on af_unix
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 06:41:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161209064144.GZ1555@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXjeG5=wZyQP-yOKcB4WRfgGRjeQ+NDHyeSWwdU50Xh5g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:32:00PM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:

> > Why do we do autobind there, anyway, and why is it conditional on
> > SOCK_PASSCRED?  Note that e.g. for SOCK_STREAM we can bloody well get
> > to sending stuff without autobind ever done - just use socketpair()
> > to create that sucker and we won't be going through the connect()
> > at all.
> 
> In the case Dmitry reported, unix_dgram_sendmsg() calls unix_autobind(),
> not SOCK_STREAM.

Yes, I've noticed.  What I'm asking is what in there needs autobind triggered
on sendmsg and why doesn't the same need affect the SOCK_STREAM case?

> I guess some lock, perhaps the u->bindlock could be dropped before
> acquiring the next one (sb_writer), but I need to double check.

Bad idea, IMO - do you *want* autobind being able to come through while
bind(2) is busy with mknod?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-09  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 14:47 fs, net: deadlock between bind/splice on af_unix Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-08 16:30 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-09  0:08   ` Cong Wang
2016-12-09  1:32     ` Al Viro
2016-12-09  6:32       ` Cong Wang
2016-12-09  6:41         ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-01-16  9:32           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-17 21:21             ` Cong Wang
2017-01-18  9:17               ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-20  4:57                 ` Cong Wang
2017-01-20 22:52                   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-23 19:00                     ` Cong Wang
2017-01-26 23:29               ` Mateusz Guzik
2017-01-27  5:11                 ` Cong Wang
2017-01-27  6:41                   ` Mateusz Guzik
2017-01-31  6:44                     ` Cong Wang
2017-01-31 18:14                       ` Mateusz Guzik
2017-02-06  7:22                         ` Cong Wang
2017-02-07 14:20                           ` Mateusz Guzik
2017-02-10  1:37                             ` Cong Wang
2017-01-17  8:07           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <065031f0-27c5-443d-82f9-2f475fcef8c3@googlegroups.com>
2017-06-23 16:30   ` Cong Wang

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