[v3 PATCH] netlink: Do not schedule work from sk_destruct

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 03:26:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 03:19:46PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the patch.  It'll obviously work but I wanted avoid that
> > because it penalises the common path for the rare case.
> > 
> > Andrey, please try this patch and let me know if it's any better.
> > 
> > ---8<---
> > Subject: netlink: Do not schedule work from sk_destruct
> 
> Crap, I screwed it up again.  Here is a v2 which moves the atomic
> call into the RCU callback as otherwise the socket can be freed from
> another path while we await the RCU callback.

With the move it no longer makes sense to rename deferred_put_nlk_sk
so here is v3 which restores the original name.

---8<---
It is wrong to schedule a work from sk_destruct using the socket
as the memory reserve because the socket will be freed immediately
after the return from sk_destruct.

Instead we should do the deferral prior to sk_free.

This patch does just that.

Fixes: 707693c8a498 ("netlink: Call cb->done from a worker thread")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 602e5eb..246f29d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -322,11 +322,13 @@ static void netlink_skb_set_owner_r(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk)
 	sk_mem_charge(sk, skb->truesize);
 }
 
-static void __netlink_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk)
+static void netlink_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
 
 	if (nlk->cb_running) {
+		if (nlk->cb.done)
+			nlk->cb.done(&nlk->cb);
 		module_put(nlk->cb.module);
 		kfree_skb(nlk->cb.skb);
 	}
@@ -348,21 +350,7 @@ static void netlink_sock_destruct_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = container_of(work, struct netlink_sock,
 						work);
 
-	nlk->cb.done(&nlk->cb);
-	__netlink_sock_destruct(&nlk->sk);
-}
-
-static void netlink_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk)
-{
-	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
-
-	if (nlk->cb_running && nlk->cb.done) {
-		INIT_WORK(&nlk->work, netlink_sock_destruct_work);
-		schedule_work(&nlk->work);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	__netlink_sock_destruct(sk);
+	sk_free(&nlk->sk);
 }
 
 /* This lock without WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE is good on UP and it is _very_ bad on
@@ -667,8 +655,18 @@ static int netlink_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 static void deferred_put_nlk_sk(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = container_of(head, struct netlink_sock, rcu);
+	struct sock *sk = &nlk->sk;
+
+	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&sk->sk_refcnt))
+		return;
+
+	if (nlk->cb_running && nlk->cb.done) {
+		INIT_WORK(&nlk->work, netlink_sock_destruct_work);
+		schedule_work(&nlk->work);
+		return;
+	}
 
-	sock_put(&nlk->sk);
+	sk_free(sk);
 }
 
 static int netlink_release(struct socket *sock)
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