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Commit 7c349ed0 authored by Kuniyuki Iwashima's avatar Kuniyuki Iwashima Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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af_unix: Remove scm_fp_dup() in unix_attach_fds().



When we passed fds, we used to bump each file's refcount twice
in scm_fp_copy() and scm_fp_dup() before linking the socket to
gc_inflight_list.

This is because we incremented the inflight count of the socket
and linked it to the list in advance before passing skb to the
destination socket.

Otherwise, the inflight socket could have been garbage-collected
in a small race window between linking the socket to the list and
queuing skb:

  CPU 1 : sendmsg(X) w/ A's fd     CPU 2 : close(A)
  -----                            -----
  /* Here A's refcount is 1, and inflight count is 0 */

  bump A's refcount to 2 in scm_fp_copy()
  bump A's inflight count to 1
  link A to gc_inflight_list
                                   decrement A's refcount to 1

  /* A's refcount == inflight count, thus A could be GC candidate */

                                   start GC
                                   mark A as candidate
                                   purge A's receive queue

  queue skb w/ A's fd to X

  /* A is queued, but all data has been lost */

After commit 4090fa37 ("af_unix: Replace garbage collection
algorithm."), we increment the inflight count and link the socket
to the global list only when queuing the skb.

The race no longer exists, so let's not clone the fd nor bump
the count in unix_attach_fds().

Signed-off-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401173125.92184-2-kuniyu@amazon.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent d20bac35
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