Re: [PATCH net V2] tuntap: correctly wake up process during uninit

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu May 19 2016 - 07:25:14 EST


On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 13:36 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We used to check dev->reg_state against NETREG_REGISTERED after each
> time we are woke up. But after commit 9e641bdcfa4e ("net-tun:
> restructure tun_do_read for better sleep/wakeup efficiency"), it uses
> skb_recv_datagram() which does not check dev->reg_state. This will
> result if we delete a tun/tap device after a process is blocked in the
> reading. The device will wait for the reference count which was held
> by that process for ever.
>
> Fixes this by using RCV_SHUTDOWN which will be checked during
> sk_recv_datagram() before trying to wake up the process during uninit.
>
> Fixes: 9e641bdcfa4e ("net-tun: restructure tun_do_read for better
> sleep/wakeup efficiency")
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Xi Wang <xii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !