Re: [Patch]Re: Serious reproducible 2.4.x kernel hang

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 04:29:15 EST


Prasanna P Subash writes:
> I looked at the skb_recv_datagram code and noticed that wait_for_packet is not
> returning an error, even while trying to read a closed socket.
> Anyways here is a patch against 2.4.1 that will fix the issue.
> Please feel free to flame me about the patch :)

Please read the rest of today's postings, Alexey Kuznetsov already
posted the correct fix, which I'm attached below:

diff -u --recursive --new-file --exclude=CVS --exclude=.cvsignore vanilla/linux/net/core/datagram.c linux/net/core/datagram.c
--- vanilla/linux/net/core/datagram.c Sat Nov 11 19:02:40 2000
+++ linux/net/core/datagram.c Thu Feb 1 17:15:12 2001
@@ -72,19 +73,19 @@
         /* Socket errors? */
         error = sock_error(sk);
         if (error)
- goto out;
+ goto out_err;
 
         if (!skb_queue_empty(&sk->receive_queue))
                 goto ready;
 
         /* Socket shut down? */
         if (sk->shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN)
- goto out;
+ goto out_noerr;
 
         /* Sequenced packets can come disconnected. If so we report the problem */
         error = -ENOTCONN;
         if(connection_based(sk) && !(sk->state==TCP_ESTABLISHED || sk->state==TCP_LISTEN))
- goto out;
+ goto out_err;
 
         /* handle signals */
         if (signal_pending(current))
@@ -99,11 +100,16 @@
 
 interrupted:
         error = sock_intr_errno(*timeo_p);
+out_err:
+ *err = error;
 out:
         current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
         remove_wait_queue(sk->sleep, &wait);
- *err = error;
         return error;
+out_noerr:
+ *err = 0;
+ error = 1;
+ goto out;
 }
 
 /*
-
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