Re: [PATCH] net: remove release/lock_sock in tcp_splice_read

[Paolo Abeni]

On 8/15/24 10:43, sunyiqi wrote:
> When enters tcp_splice_read, tcp_splice_read will call lock_sock
> for sk in order to prevent other threads acquiring sk and release it
> before return.
>
> But in while(tss.len) loop, it releases and re-locks sk, give the other
> thread a small window to lock the sk.
>
> As a result, release/lock_sock in the while loop in tcp_splice_read may
> cause race condition.

Which race condition exactly? do you have a backtrace?

> Fixes: 9c55e01c0cc8 ("[TCP]: Splice receive support.")
> Signed-off-by: sunyiqi <sunyiqixm@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index e03a342c9162..7a2ce0e2e5be 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -856,8 +856,6 @@ ssize_t tcp_splice_read(struct socket *sock, loff_t *ppos,
>   
>   		if (!tss.len || !timeo)
>   			break;
> -		release_sock(sk);
> -		lock_sock(sk);

This is needed to flush the sk backlog.

Somewhat related, I think we could replace the pair with sk_flush_backlog().

Thanks,

Paolo