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Re: [PATCH v4] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:55:21PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:16:50 +0800
> 
> > The commit c0bb07df7d981e4091432754e30c9c720e2c0c78 ("netlink:
> > Reset portid after netlink_insert failure") introduced a race
> > condition where if two threads try to autobind the same socket
> > one of them may end up with a zero port ID.  This led to kernel
> > deadlocks that were observed by multiple people.
> > 
> > This patch reverts that commit and instead fixes it by introducing
> > a separte rhash_portid variable so that the real portid is only set
> > after the socket has been successfully hashed.
> > 
> > Fixes: c0bb07df7d98 ("netlink: Reset portid after netlink_insert failure")
> > Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Herbert.

Sorry but Dave but there are still races with v4 as Tejun pointed
out.  I'm still working on it and I could post them as incremental
patches if that's the easiest.

Thanks,
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Possible netlink autobind regression Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-17 04:30 +0200
  Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-17 05:10 +0200
    Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-17 05:50 +0200
      Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> - 2015-09-17 07:10 +0200
        Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-17 07:20 +0200
          Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-17 13:40 +0200
            [PATCH v3] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero  port ID Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-18 08:40 +0200
              [PATCH v4] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero  port ID Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-18 13:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to  zero port ID David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-21 08:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to  zero port ID Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-21 08:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to  zero port ID David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-21 08:20 +0200
                netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-21 15:40 +0200
                Re: netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-21 20:30 +0200
                [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-22 05:40 +0200
                [PATCH] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with load_acquire protected  boolean Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-21 23:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3] netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to  zero port ID Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
          Re: Possible netlink autobind regression Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-09-17 13:50 +0200

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