Re: use-after-free in sock_wake_async

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Wed Nov 25 2015 - 17:32:19 EST


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015, at 23:09, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 20:57 +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> > I do agree that keeping the ->sk_data_ready outside of the lock will
> > very likely have performance advantages. That's just something I
> > wouldn't have undertaken because I'd be reluctant to make a fairly
> > complicated change to a lot of code.
>
> All I am saying is that we can keep current performance.
>
> We already have the core infrastructure, we only need to properly use
> it.
>
> I will split my changes in two parts.
>
> One part doing a very boring change of
>
> rename SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA
> for X in SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA
>
> set_bit(X, &sk->sk_socket->flags) -> sk_set_bit(X, sk)
> clear_bit(X, &sk->sk_socket->flags) -> sk_clear_bit(X, sk)

sk_set_bit and sk_clear_bit will forward the set_bit and clear_bit into
the socket_wq like you explained above?

> The rename will help backports to catch code that might have been
> removed in recent kernels.
>
> Then the second patch will do the actual changes, and they will look
> very sensible for people wanting to review them, and or familiar with
> the stack, do not worry ;)

Do you see a chance to inline socket_wq into struct socket and discard
struct socket_alloc in one go by rcu in socket_destroy_inode?

Thanks,
Hannes
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