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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet•nl>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki•fi>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx•de>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: fix MSG_PEEK race check
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905111450.06749.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905110926520.10047@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>

On Monday 11 May 2009, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> I took my time to fix the urg_hole madness too. The patch below.

Hmm. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to keep the two issues separate. 
The initial patch is a clear regression fix (4 people have reported it 
against fetchmail for Debian). The URG part is IMO a separate issue which 
I at least have never seen in practice.
And my Tested-by doesn't cover the additional change either.

That said, I have added the URG change (as an incremental patch) in my 
local git repo and will give it a go when I next build a kernel (may take 
a week). I don't expect to be able to confirm it fixes the URG race, but 
I can at least check that it doesn't cause any false messages with my 
(spectacularly unspectacular) network traffic. I'll report the result.

> --
> [PATCH v2] tcp: fix MSG_PEEK race check
>
> Commit 518a09ef11 (tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of
> blocking behavior) lets the loop run longer than the race check
> did previously expect, so we need to be more careful with this
> check and consider the work we have been doing.
>
> I tried my best to deal with urg hole madness too which happens
> here:
> 	if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) {
> 		++*seq;
> 		...
> by using additional offset by one but I certainly have very
> little interest in testing that part.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo J?rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki•fi>
> Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet•nl>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index 1d7f49c..7a0f0b2 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -1321,6 +1321,7 @@ int tcp_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock
> *sk, struct msghdr *msg, struct task_struct *user_recv = NULL;
>  	int copied_early = 0;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	u32 urg_hole = 0;
>
>  	lock_sock(sk);
>
> @@ -1532,7 +1533,8 @@ do_prequeue:
>  				}
>  			}
>  		}
> -		if ((flags & MSG_PEEK) && peek_seq != tp->copied_seq) {
> +		if ((flags & MSG_PEEK) &&
> +		    (peek_seq - copied - urg_hole != tp->copied_seq)) {
>  			if (net_ratelimit())
>  				printk(KERN_DEBUG "TCP(%s:%d): Application bug, race in
> MSG_PEEK.\n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
> @@ -1553,6 +1555,7 @@ do_prequeue:
>  				if (!urg_offset) {
>  					if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) {
>  						++*seq;
> +						urg_hole++;
>  						offset++;
>  						used--;
>  						if (!used)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200902262310.12791.elendil@planet.nl>
     [not found] ` <200903091749.50818.elendil@planet.nl>
     [not found]   ` <op.uqjiqsol1e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org>
     [not found]     ` <200903141900.14498.elendil@planet.nl>
2009-05-06 16:15       ` Strange Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK complaints (was: Bug#513695: fetchmail: race in MSG_PEEK) Matthias Andree
2009-05-06 23:02       ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-07  6:48         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-07 17:16           ` Frans Pop
2009-05-07 18:48             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-07 20:43               ` Frans Pop
2009-05-09 18:14           ` Frans Pop
2009-05-11  6:32             ` [PATCH v2] tcp: fix MSG_PEEK race check Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-11 12:50               ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-05-11 13:32                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-11 13:54                   ` Frans Pop
2009-05-11 14:57                     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-17 22:31                       ` David Miller
2009-05-18  8:02                         ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-17 22:41               ` David Miller
2009-05-18  7:24                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-18 15:34                   ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-18 22:04                   ` David Miller
2009-05-19  4:33                     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-05-19  4:40                       ` David Miller
2009-05-19  9:05                     ` Matthias Andree

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