This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit() to the 3.10-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: sctp-fix-possible-seqlock-seadlock-in-sctp_packet_transmit.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Aug 8 08:48:58 PDT 2014 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:49:52 +0200 Subject: sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit() From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 757efd32d5ce31f67193cc0e6a56e4dffcc42fb1 ] Dave reported following splat, caused by improper use of IP_INC_STATS_BH() in process context. BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: trinity-c117/14551 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20 CPU: 3 PID: 14551 Comm: trinity-c117 Not tainted 3.16.0+ #33 ffffffff9ec898f0 0000000047ea7e23 ffff88022d32f7f0 ffffffff9e7ee207 0000000000000003 ffff88022d32f818 ffffffff9e397eaa ffff88023ee70b40 ffff88022d32f970 ffff8801c026d580 ffff88022d32f828 ffffffff9e397ee3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff9e7ee207>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a [<ffffffff9e397eaa>] check_preemption_disabled+0xfa/0x100 [<ffffffff9e397ee3>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffffc0839872>] sctp_packet_transmit+0x692/0x710 [sctp] [<ffffffffc082a7f2>] sctp_outq_flush+0x2a2/0xc30 [sctp] [<ffffffff9e0d985c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff9e7f8c6d>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5d/0x80 [<ffffffffc082b99a>] sctp_outq_uncork+0x1a/0x20 [sctp] [<ffffffffc081e112>] sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.23+0x1142/0x13f0 [sctp] [<ffffffffc081c86b>] sctp_do_sm+0xdb/0x330 [sctp] [<ffffffff9e0b8f1b>] ? preempt_count_sub+0xab/0x100 [<ffffffffc083b350>] ? sctp_cname+0x70/0x70 [sctp] [<ffffffffc08389ca>] sctp_primitive_ASSOCIATE+0x3a/0x50 [sctp] [<ffffffffc083358f>] sctp_sendmsg+0x88f/0xe30 [sctp] [<ffffffff9e0d673a>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.28+0x9a/0x160 [<ffffffff9e0d62ce>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.27+0xe/0x30 [<ffffffff9e73b624>] inet_sendmsg+0x104/0x220 [<ffffffff9e73b525>] ? inet_sendmsg+0x5/0x220 [<ffffffff9e68ac4e>] sock_sendmsg+0x9e/0xe0 [<ffffffff9e1c0c09>] ? might_fault+0xb9/0xc0 [<ffffffff9e1c0bae>] ? might_fault+0x5e/0xc0 [<ffffffff9e68b234>] SYSC_sendto+0x124/0x1c0 [<ffffffff9e0136b0>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x250/0x330 [<ffffffff9e68c3ce>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff9e7f9be4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 This is a followup of commits f1d8cba61c3c4b ("inet: fix possible seqlock deadlocks") and 7f88c6b23afbd315 ("ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sctp/output.c +++ b/net/sctp/output.c @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ out: return err; no_route: kfree_skb(nskb); - IP_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(asoc->base.sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); + IP_INC_STATS(sock_net(asoc->base.sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); /* FIXME: Returning the 'err' will effect all the associations * associated with a socket, although only one of the paths of the Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/sctp-fix-possible-seqlock-seadlock-in-sctp_packet_transmit.patch queue-3.10/net-sendmsg-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch queue-3.10/net-correctly-set-segment-mac_len-in-skb_segment.patch queue-3.10/ip-make-ip-identifiers-less-predictable.patch queue-3.10/inetpeer-get-rid-of-ip_id_count.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html