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Commit 84602761 authored by Ying Xue's avatar Ying Xue Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: fix deadlock during socket release



A deadlock might occur if name table is withdrawn in socket release
routine, and while packets are still being received from bearer.

       CPU0                       CPU1
T0:   recv_msg()               release()
T1:   tipc_recv_msg()          tipc_withdraw()
T2:   [grab node lock]         [grab port lock]
T3:   tipc_link_wakeup_ports() tipc_nametbl_withdraw()
T4:   [grab port lock]*        named_cluster_distribute()
T5:   wakeupdispatch()         tipc_link_send()
T6:                            [grab node lock]*

The opposite order of holding port lock and node lock on above two
different paths may result in a deadlock. If socket lock instead of
port lock is used to protect port instance in tipc_withdraw(), the
reverse order of holding port lock and node lock will be eliminated,
as a result, the deadlock is killed as well.

Reported-by: default avatarLars Everbrand <lars.everbrand@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8eb9bff0
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