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Commit a93d01f5 authored by Sowmini Varadhan's avatar Sowmini Varadhan Committed by David S. Miller
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RDS: TCP: avoid bad page reference in rds_tcp_listen_data_ready



As the existing comments in rds_tcp_listen_data_ready() indicate,
it is possible under some race-windows to get to this function with the
accept() socket. If that happens, we could run into a sequence whereby

   thread 1				thread 2

rds_tcp_accept_one() thread
sets up new_sock via ->accept().
The sk_user_data is now
sock_def_readable
					data comes in for new_sock,
					->sk_data_ready is called, and
					we land in rds_tcp_listen_data_ready
rds_tcp_set_callbacks()
takes the sk_callback_lock and
sets up sk_user_data to be the cp
					read_lock sk_callback_lock
					ready = cp
					unlock sk_callback_lock
					page fault on ready

In the above sequence, we end up with a panic on a bad page reference
when trying to execute (*ready)(). Instead we need to call
sock_def_readable() safely, which is what this patch achieves.

Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent caeccd51
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