Re: [PATCH 1/7] fuse: Check for fc->connected in fuse_dev_alloc()

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 1:28 PM Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 18.01.2019 15:07, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:19 AM Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> fuse_dev_alloc() may be called after fc->connected
> >> is dropped (from ioctl), so here we add sanity check
> >> for that case.
> >
> > AFAICS this is not fixing a bug; i.e. even if the fuse_dev is added to
> > the fuse_conn's list after disconnection there would be no leak.
> >
> > In other words, it's irrelevant whether the connection reset comes
> > just before the ioctl completes or just after.   Or am I missing
> > something?
>
> Yeah, there won't be a leak. The only problem I see, userspace daemon
> may become waiting in fuse_dev_do_read() after abort is finished.

By that time fiq->connected will be reset, so fuse_dev_do_read() will
return ENODEV/ECONNABORTED.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Miklos



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