On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:14:33PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi, > > [This is an automated email] > > This commit has been processed because it contains a -stable tag. Ugh... Should've removed Cc; stable from netdev posting; my apologies. > How should we proceed with this patch? Wait for it to get into davem's tree, for starters? Sorry about that, again... FWIW, further adventures in net/unix land: unix_dgram_poll() contains /* connection hasn't started yet? */ if (sk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT) return mask; and nothing in there sets TCP_SYN_SENT state (not that it would've made any sense of AF_UNIX). unix_poll() contains /* Connection-based need to check for termination and startup */ if ((sk->sk_type == SOCK_STREAM || sk->sk_type == SOCK_SEQPACKET) && sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE) while it can only be called as ->poll of unix_stream_ops, which means that sk->sk_type can't be anything other that SOCK_STREAM in there. static void scan_children(struct sock *x, void (*func)(struct unix_sock *), struct sk_buff_head *hitlist) { if (x->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN) { scan_inflight(x, func, hitlist); } else { ... has no exclusion or barriers to deal with the store of TCP_LISTEN into ->sk_state inside unix_listen(). That one's potentially nasty - we won't find SCM_RIGHTS already queued to embrios in x's queue until we notice that x->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN, which can happen between two calls of scan_children() in the same unix_gc() run. The race is narrow, but not impossible, AFAICS. Reasonably easy to fix - lift locking the queue out of scan_inflight(), grab the queue lock before checking if it's a listener and have unix_listen() either grab the queue lock around the assignment to ->sk_state, or pump it up and down before dropping unix_state_lock() (at which point connect() might be able to find it, etc.) Al, still digging through net/unix...