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Commit ed2e9239 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp/dccp: fix timewait races in timer handling



When creating a timewait socket, we need to arm the timer before
allowing other cpus to find it. The signal allowing cpus to find
the socket is setting tw_refcnt to non zero value.

As we set tw_refcnt in __inet_twsk_hashdance(), we therefore need to
call inet_twsk_schedule() first.

This also means we need to remove tw_refcnt changes from
inet_twsk_schedule() and let the caller handle it.

Note that because we use mod_timer_pinned(), we have the guarantee
the timer wont expire before we set tw_refcnt as we run in BH context.

To make things more readable I introduced inet_twsk_reschedule() helper.

When rearming the timer, we can use mod_timer_pending() to make sure
we do not rearm a canceled timer.

Note: This bug can possibly trigger if packets of a flow can hit
multiple cpus. This does not normally happen, unless flow steering
is broken somehow. This explains this bug was spotted ~5 months after
its introduction.

A similar fix is needed for SYN_RECV sockets in reqsk_queue_hash_req(),
but will be provided in a separate patch for proper tracking.

Fixes: 789f558c ("tcp/dccp: get rid of central timewait timer")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: default avatarYing Cai <ycai@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4c5d283a
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