Re: strange crashes in tcp_poll() via epoll_wait

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 23:50 +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Al
> > 
> > I tried to debug strange crashes in tcp_poll() called from
> > sys_epoll_wait() -> sock_poll()
> > 
> > The symptom is that sock->sk is NULL and we therefore dereference a NULL
> > pointer.
> > 
> > It's really rare crashes but still, it would be nice to understand where
> > is the bug. Presumably latest kernels would crash in sock_poll() because
> > of the sk_can_busy_loop(sock->sk) call.
> > 
> > We do test sock->sk being NULL in sock_fasync(), but epoll should be
> > safe because of existing synchronization (epmutex) ?
> 
> It should be safe because of ep->mtx, actually, as epmutex is not taken
> in sys_epoll_wait.

Hmm, it might be more complex than that for multi threaded programs : 

eventpoll_release_file()

The problem might be because a thread closes a socket while an event
was queued for it.


> 
> I took a look at this but have not found anything.  I've yet to see this
> this on my machines.
> 
> When did you start noticing this?

Hard to say, but we have these crashes on a 3.3+ based kernel.

Probability of said crashes is very very low.


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