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authorSean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>2020-06-30 20:50:17 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-07-02 01:49:11 +0300
commit1e82a62fec613844da9e558f3493540a5b7a7b67 (patch)
treeef24bd75739f80865d3ed9c2aa3bfda459736b5b /include/net/genetlink.h
parentd3c54f7f18cb82283777998c4bec52e49241c783 (diff)
downloadlinux-1e82a62fec613844da9e558f3493540a5b7a7b67.tar.xz
genetlink: remove genl_bind
A potential deadlock can occur during registering or unregistering a new generic netlink family between the main nl_table_lock and the cb_lock where each thread wants the lock held by the other, as demonstrated below. 1) Thread 1 is performing a netlink_bind() operation on a socket. As part of this call, it will call netlink_lock_table(), incrementing the nl_table_users count to 1. 2) Thread 2 is registering (or unregistering) a genl_family via the genl_(un)register_family() API. The cb_lock semaphore will be taken for writing. 3) Thread 1 will call genl_bind() as part of the bind operation to handle subscribing to GENL multicast groups at the request of the user. It will attempt to take the cb_lock semaphore for reading, but it will fail and be scheduled away, waiting for Thread 2 to finish the write. 4) Thread 2 will call netlink_table_grab() during the (un)registration call. However, as Thread 1 has incremented nl_table_users, it will not be able to proceed, and both threads will be stuck waiting for the other. genl_bind() is a noop, unless a genl_family implements the mcast_bind() function to handle setting up family-specific multicast operations. Since no one in-tree uses this functionality as Cong pointed out, simply removing the genl_bind() function will remove the possibility for deadlock, as there is no attempt by Thread 1 above to take the cb_lock semaphore. Fixes: c380d9a7afff ("genetlink: pass multicast bind/unbind to families") Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index ad71ed4f55ff..6e5f1e1aa822 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@ struct genl_info;
* do additional, common, filtering and return an error
* @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may
* undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
- * @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which
- * is given as the offset into the groups array)
- * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group.
- * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the
- * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open
- * sockets.
* @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family
* @n_mcgrps: number of multicast groups
* @mcgrp_offset: starting number of multicast group IDs in this family
@@ -63,8 +57,6 @@ struct genl_family {
void (*post_doit)(const struct genl_ops *ops,
struct sk_buff *skb,
struct genl_info *info);
- int (*mcast_bind)(struct net *net, int group);
- void (*mcast_unbind)(struct net *net, int group);
const struct genl_ops * ops;
const struct genl_multicast_group *mcgrps;
unsigned int n_ops;