4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 234ec0b6034b16869d45128b8cd2dc6ffe596f04 ]
I analyze the potential sleeping issue of the following processes:
Thread A Thread B
... netlink_create //ref = 1
do_mq_notify ...
sock = netlink_getsockbyfilp ... //ref = 2
info->notify_sock = sock; ...
... netlink_sendmsg
... skb = netlink_alloc_large_skb //skb->head is vmalloced
... netlink_unicast
... sk = netlink_getsockbyportid //ref = 3
... netlink_sendskb
... __netlink_sendskb
... skb_queue_tail //put skb to sk_receive_queue
... sock_put //ref = 2
... ...
... netlink_release
... deferred_put_nlk_sk //ref = 1
mqueue_flush_file
spin_lock
remove_notification
netlink_sendskb
sock_put //ref = 0
sk_free
...
__sk_destruct
netlink_sock_destruct
skb_queue_purge //get skb from sk_receive_queue
...
__skb_queue_purge_reason
kfree_skb_reason
__kfree_skb
...
skb_release_all
skb_release_head_state
netlink_skb_destructor
vfree(skb->head) //sleeping while holding spinlock
In netlink_sendmsg, if the memory pointed to by skb->head is allocated by
vmalloc, and is put to sk_receive_queue queue, also the skb is not freed.
When the mqueue executes flush, the sleeping bug will occur. Use
vfree_atomic instead of vfree in netlink_skb_destructor to solve the issue.
Fixes: c05cdb1b864f ("netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122011807.2110357-1-shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index e91489b3274c..72936d154c96 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static void netlink_skb_destructor(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (is_vmalloc_addr(skb->head)) {
if (!skb->cloned ||
!atomic_dec_return(&(skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref)))
- vfree(skb->head);
+ vfree_atomic(skb->head);
skb->head = NULL;
}
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2.43.0
