This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mptcp: fix deadlock in __mptcp_push_pending() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mptcp-fix-deadlock-in-__mptcp_push_pending.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a68a2fae83720bf2376cbd99391d7b48bd77d072 Author: Maxim Galaganov <max@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 14 15:16:03 2021 -0800 mptcp: fix deadlock in __mptcp_push_pending() [ Upstream commit 3d79e3756ca90f7a6087b77b62c1d9c0801e0820 ] __mptcp_push_pending() may call mptcp_flush_join_list() with subflow socket lock held. If such call hits mptcp_sockopt_sync_all() then subsequently __mptcp_sockopt_sync() could try to lock the subflow socket for itself, causing a deadlock. sysrq: Show Blocked State task:ss-server state:D stack: 0 pid: 938 ppid: 1 flags:0x00000000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x2d6/0x10c0 ? __mod_memcg_state+0x4d/0x70 ? csum_partial+0xd/0x20 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x26/0x50 schedule+0x4e/0xc0 __lock_sock+0x69/0x90 ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0 __lock_sock_fast+0x35/0x50 mptcp_sockopt_sync_all+0x38/0xc0 __mptcp_push_pending+0x105/0x200 mptcp_sendmsg+0x466/0x490 sock_sendmsg+0x57/0x60 __sys_sendto+0xf0/0x160 ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0 ? fpregs_restore_userregs+0x12/0xd0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f9ba546c2d0 RSP: 002b:00007ffdc3b762d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9ba56c8060 RCX: 00007f9ba546c2d0 RDX: 000000000000077a RSI: 0000000000e5e180 RDI: 0000000000000234 RBP: 0000000000cc57f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9ba56c8060 R13: 0000000000b6ba60 R14: 0000000000cc7840 R15: 41d8685b1d7901b8 </TASK> Fix the issue by using __mptcp_flush_join_list() instead of plain mptcp_flush_join_list() inside __mptcp_push_pending(), as suggested by Florian. The sockopt sync will be deferred to the workqueue. Fixes: 1b3e7ede1365 ("mptcp: setsockopt: handle SO_KEEPALIVE and SO_PRIORITY") Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/244 Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Maxim Galaganov <max@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index fdff811c9a0da..4c889552cde77 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ void __mptcp_push_pending(struct sock *sk, unsigned int flags) int ret = 0; prev_ssk = ssk; - mptcp_flush_join_list(msk); + __mptcp_flush_join_list(msk); ssk = mptcp_subflow_get_send(msk); /* First check. If the ssk has changed since