tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug
Until now, the requests sent to topology server are queued to a workqueue by the generic server framework. These messages are processed by worker threads and trigger the registered callbacks. To reduce latency on uniprocessor systems, explicit rescheduling is performed using cond_resched() after MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT(25) messages. This implementation on SMP systems leads to an subscriber refcnt error as described below: When a worker thread yields by calling cond_resched() in a SMP system, a new worker is created on another CPU to process the pending workitem. Sometimes the sleeping thread wakes up before the new thread finishes execution. This breaks the assumption on ordering and being single threaded. The fault is more frequent when MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT is lowered. If the first thread was processing subscription create and the second thread processing close(), the close request will free the subscriber and the create request oops as follows: [31.224137] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 266 at include/linux/kref.h:46 tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380 [tipc] [31.228143] CPU: 2 PID: 266 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 4.5.0+ #97 [31.228377] Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_recv_work [tipc] [...] [31.228377] Call Trace: [31.228377] [<ffffffff812fbb6b>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x72 [31.228377] [<ffffffff8105a311>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0 [31.228377] [<ffffffff8105a3fd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 [31.228377] [<ffffffffa0098067>] tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380 [tipc] [31.228377] [<ffffffffa00a4984>] tipc_receive_from_sock+0xd4/0x130 [tipc] [31.228377] [<ffffffffa00a439b>] tipc_recv_work+0x2b/0x50 [tipc] [31.228377] [<ffffffff81071925>] process_one_work+0x145/0x3d0 [31.246554] ---[ end trace c3882c9baa05a4fd ]--- [31.248327] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#2, kworker/u8:1/266 [31.249119] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000428 [31.249323] IP: [<ffffffff81099d0c>] spin_dump+0x5c/0xe0 [31.249323] PGD 0 [31.249323] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP In this commit, we - rename tipc_conn_shutdown() to tipc_conn_release(). - move connection release callback execution from tipc_close_conn() to a new function tipc_sock_release(), which is executed before we free the connection. Thus we release the subscriber during connection release procedure rather than connection shutdown procedure. Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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