Subject: Re: [V4.4-rc6 Regression] af_unix: Revert 'lock_interruptible' in stream receive code

From: Rainer Weikusat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 22:04:02 +0000

Rainer Weikusat <[email-masked]> writes:
> Joseph Salisbury <[email-masked]> writes:
>> On 02/05/2016 02:59 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> [recvmsg w/o iovecs returning ENOTSUP for CMSG requests]

[...]

> There are more problems wrt handling control-message only reads in this
> code.

[...]

> it will return without an error but also without credentials if the

[...]

> because the following
>
> mutex_lock(&u->readlock);
> continue;
>
> will cause the
>
> do {
> } while (size)
>
> loop condition to be evaluated and since size is 0 (AIUI), the loop will
> terminate immediately.

As I suspected, the test program included below doesn't really receive
the credentials (tested with a 4.5.0-rc2-net w/ the previous patch
applied). As that's a minor, additional problem, I'll fix that, too.

---
#define _GNU_SOURCE
    
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
    enum { server, client, size };
    int socket_fd[size];
    int const opt = 1;

    assert(socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket_fd) == 0);
    assert(setsockopt(socket_fd[server], SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSCRED, &opt, sizeof(opt)) != -1);

    char const msg[] = "A random message";

    if (fork() == 0) {
	sleep(1);
	send(socket_fd[client], msg, sizeof msg, MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_NOSIGNAL);

	_exit(0);
    }

    union {
        struct cmsghdr cmh;
        char control[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct ucred))];
    } control_un;

    control_un.cmh.cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(struct ucred));
    control_un.cmh.cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
    control_un.cmh.cmsg_type = SCM_CREDENTIALS;

    struct msghdr msgh;
    msgh.msg_name = NULL;
    msgh.msg_namelen = 0;
    msgh.msg_iov = NULL;
    msgh.msg_iovlen = 0;
    msgh.msg_control = control_un.control;
    msgh.msg_controllen = sizeof(control_un.control);

    if (recvmsg(socket_fd[server], &msgh, MSG_PEEK) == -1)
    {
        printf("Error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    else
    {
	struct ucred *ucred;
	
        printf("Success?\n");

	ucred = (void *)CMSG_DATA(&control_un.cmh);
	printf("...  pid %ld, uid %d, gid %d\n",
	       (long)ucred->pid, ucred->uid, ucred->gid);
    }

    return 0;
}