Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 06:18 PM CET, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On 1/23/20 7:55 AM, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > >> sk_msg and ULP frameworks override protocol callbacks pointer in > >> sk->sk_prot, while tcp accesses it locklessly when cloning the listening > >> socket, that is with neither sk_lock nor sk_callback_lock held. > >> > >> Once we enable use of listening sockets with sockmap (and hence sk_msg), > >> there will be shared access to sk->sk_prot if socket is getting cloned > >> while being inserted/deleted to/from the sockmap from another CPU: [...] > >> include/linux/skmsg.h | 3 ++- > >> net/core/sock.c | 5 +++-- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c | 4 +++- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_ulp.c | 3 ++- > >> net/tls/tls_main.c | 3 ++- > >> 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/include/linux/skmsg.h b/include/linux/skmsg.h > >> index 41ea1258d15e..55c834a5c25e 100644 > >> --- a/include/linux/skmsg.h > >> +++ b/include/linux/skmsg.h > >> @@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ static inline void sk_psock_update_proto(struct sock *sk, > >> psock->saved_write_space = sk->sk_write_space; > >> > >> psock->sk_proto = sk->sk_prot; > >> - sk->sk_prot = ops; > >> + /* Pairs with lockless read in sk_clone_lock() */ > >> + WRITE_ONCE(sk->sk_prot, ops); > > > > > > Note there are dozens of calls like > > > > if (sk->sk_prot->handler) > > sk->sk_prot->handler(...); > > > > Some of them being done lockless. > > > > I know it is painful, but presumably we need Correct. > > > > const struct proto *ops = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_prot); > > > > if (ops->handler) > > ops->handler(....); > > Yikes! That will be quite an audit. Thank you for taking a look. > > Now I think I understand what John had in mind when asking for pushing > these annotations to the bpf tree as well [0]. Yep this is what I meant. But your patches don't make the situation any worse its already there. > > Considering these are lacking today, can I do it as a follow up? In my opinion yes. I think pulling your patches in is OK and I started doing this conversion already so we can have a fix shortly. I didn't want to push it into rc7 though so I'll push it next week or into net-next tree. .John