Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select

From: Oleg Nesterov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:04:12 +0200

On 06/28, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>
> Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 06/28/2009 01:10 PM:
>
> > Oleg Nesterov wrote, On 06/26/2009 04:50 PM:
> >
> >> Perhaps we can add
> >>
> >> 	void sock_poll_wait(struct file *file, struct sock *sk, poll_table *pt)
> >> 	{
> >> 		if (pt) {
> >> 			poll_wait(file, sk->sk_sleep, pt);
> >> 			/*
> >> 			 * fat comment
> >> 			 */
> >> 			smp_mb(); // or smp_mb__after_unlock();
> >> 		}
> >> 	}
> >>
> >> Oleg.
> >
> >
> > Maybe 'a bit' further?:
> >
> > static inline void __poll_wait(struct file * filp, wait_queue_head_t * wait_address, poll_table *p)
> > {
> > 	p->qproc(filp, wait_address, p);
> > }
> >
> > static inline void poll_wait(struct file * filp, wait_queue_head_t * wait_address, poll_table *p)
> > {
> > 	if (p && wait_address)
> > 		__poll_wait(filp, wait_address, p);
> > }
> >
> > static inline void sock_poll_wait(struct file * filp, wait_queue_head_t * wait_address, poll_table *p)
> > {
> > 	if (p && wait_address) {
> > 		__poll_wait(filp, wait_address, p);
> > 		/*
> > 		 * fat comment
> > 		 */
> > 		smp_mb(); // or smp_mb__after_unlock();
> > 	}
> > }
> >
>
>
> Hmm... of course:
>
> static inline void sock_poll_wait(struct file * filp, struct sock *sk, poll_table *p)
> {
>  	if (p && sk->sk_sleep) {
>  		__poll_wait(filp, sk->sk_sleep, p);
>  		/*
>  		 * fat comment
>  		 */
>  		smp_mb(); // or smp_mb__after_unlock();
>  	}
> }

Perhaps it makes sense to check ->sk_sleep != NULL in sock_poll_wait(), but
I don't think we need __poll_wait(). poll_wait() is inline, I think gcc
will optimize out "if (p && wait_address)" check if poll_wait() is called
from sock_poll_wait().

This all is up to Jiri of course. But speaking about cosmetic changes, I
think it is better to make 2 patches. The first one fixes the problem using
smp_mb(), another introduces smp_mb__xxx_lock() to optimize the code.

Oleg.