On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 03:22:22PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:14 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 02:49:55PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:22 PM coverity-bot <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by > > > > Coverity from a scan of next-20221117 as part of the linux-next scan project: > > > > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan > > > > > > > > You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified > > > > lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: > > > > > > > > Wed Nov 16 12:42:01 2022 +0000 > > > > 4ebf802cf1c6 ("net: __sock_gen_cookie() cleanup") > > > > > > > > Coverity reported the following: > > > > > > > > *** CID 1527347: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) > > > > net/core/sock_diag.c:33 in __sock_gen_cookie() > > > > 27 { > > > > 28 u64 res = atomic64_read(&sk->sk_cookie); > > > > 29 > > > > 30 if (!res) { > > > > 31 u64 new = gen_cookie_next(&sock_cookie); > > > > 32 > > > > vvv CID 1527347: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) > > > > vvv Calling "atomic64_try_cmpxchg" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 8 out of 9 times). > > > > 33 atomic64_try_cmpxchg(&sk->sk_cookie, &res, new); > > > > > > > > > Hmmm. for some reason I thought @res was always updated... > > > > > > A fix would be to read sk->sk_cookie, but I guess your tool will still > > > complain we do not care > > > of atomic64_try_cmpxchg() return value ? > > > > > > diff --git a/net/core/sock_diag.c b/net/core/sock_diag.c > > > index b11593cae5a09b15a10d6ba35bccc22263cb8fc8..58efb9c1c8dd4f8e5a3009a0176e1b96487daaff > > > 100644 > > > --- a/net/core/sock_diag.c > > > +++ b/net/core/sock_diag.c > > > @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ u64 __sock_gen_cookie(struct sock *sk) > > > u64 new = gen_cookie_next(&sock_cookie); > > > > > > atomic64_try_cmpxchg(&sk->sk_cookie, &res, new); > > > + /* Another cpu/thread might have won the race, > > > + * reload the final value. > > > + */ > > > + res = atomic64_read(&sk->sk_cookie); > > > } > > > return res; > > > } > > > > I think it's saying it was expecting an update loop -- i.e. to make sure > > the value actually got swapped (the "try" part...)? > > The value has been updated, either by us or someone else. > > We do not particularly care who won the race, since the value is > updated once only. Ah! Okay, now I understand the added comment. Thanks :) -- Kees Cook
