It seems due to RCU usage, i.e. within SCTP's address binding list,
a, say, ``behavioral change'' was introduced which does actually
not conform to the RFC anymore. In particular consider the following
(fictional) scenario to demonstrate this:
do:
Two SOCK_SEQPACKET-style sockets are openend (S1, S2)
S1 is bound to 127.0.0.1, port 1024 [server]
S2 is bound to 127.0.0.1, port 1025 [client]
listen(2) is invoked on S1
From S2 we call one sendmsg(2) with msg.msg_name and
msg.msg_namelen parameters set to the server's
address
S1, S2 are closed
goto do
The first pass of this loop passes sucessful, while the second round
fails during binding of S1 (address still in use). What is happening?
In the first round, the initial handshake is being done, and, at the
time close(2) is called on S1, a nongraceful shutdown is performed via
ABORT since in S1's receive queue an unprocessed packet is present,
thus stating an error condition. This can be considered as a correct
behavior.
During close also all bound addresses are freed, thus nothing *must*
be active anymore.
After checking the Verification Tag, the receiving endpoint shall
remove the association from its record, and shall report the
termination to its upper layer. (RFC2960, 9.1 Abort of an Association)
Also, no half-open states are supported, thus after an ungraceful
shutdown, we leave nothing behind. However, this seems not to be
happening though. In a real-world scenario, this is exactly where
it breaks the lksctp-tools functional test suite, *for instance*:
./test_sockopt
test_sockopt.c 1 PASS : getsockopt(SCTP_STATUS) on a socket with no assoc
test_sockopt.c 2 PASS : getsockopt(SCTP_STATUS)
test_sockopt.c 3 PASS : getsockopt(SCTP_STATUS) with invalid associd
test_sockopt.c 4 PASS : getsockopt(SCTP_STATUS) with NULL associd
test_sockopt.c 5 BROK : bind: Address already in use
With this patch, the example above (which simulates a similar scenario
as in the implementation of this test case) and therefore also this test
runs successfully through.
If one wants to fix this issue, an RCU barrier needs to be introduced
within the sctp_close handler. One could argue that this is quite costly,
which is true, but on the other hand, if an application calls close on
its socket, it likely might be out of its critical path anyway.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/socket.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 9e65758..a9c18b4 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -1536,6 +1536,11 @@ SCTP_STATIC void sctp_close(struct sock *sk, long timeout)
sock_put(sk);
+ /* There can still be (non-)TCP-style associations be waiting
+ * to be processed via deferred RCU.
+ */
+ rcu_barrier();
+
SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC(sock);
}
--
1.7.11.7
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
