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Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 35e22e49a5 tipc: fix cleanup at module unload
In tipc_server_stop(), we iterate over the connections with limiting
factor as server's idr_in_use. We ignore the fact that this variable
is decremented in tipc_close_conn(), leading to premature exit.

In this commit, we iterate until the we have no connections left.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 16:14:58 -05:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 4c887aa65d tipc: ignore requests when the connection state is not CONNECTED
In tipc_conn_sendmsg(), we first queue the request to the outqueue
followed by the connection state check. If the connection is not
connected, we should not queue this message.

In this commit, we reject the messages if the connection state is
not CF_CONNECTED.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 16:14:58 -05:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 9dc3abdd1f tipc: fix nametbl_lock soft lockup at module exit
Commit 333f796235 ("tipc: fix a race condition leading to
subscriber refcnt bug") reveals a soft lockup while acquiring
nametbl_lock.

Before commit 333f796235, we call tipc_conn_shutdown() from
tipc_close_conn() in the context of tipc_topsrv_stop(). In that
context, we are allowed to grab the nametbl_lock.

Commit 333f796235, moved tipc_conn_release (renamed from
tipc_conn_shutdown) to the connection refcount cleanup. This allows
either tipc_nametbl_withdraw() or tipc_topsrv_stop() to the cleanup.

Since tipc_exit_net() first calls tipc_topsrv_stop() and then
tipc_nametble_withdraw() increases the chances for the later to
perform the connection cleanup.

The soft lockup occurs in the call chain of tipc_nametbl_withdraw(),
when it performs the tipc_conn_kref_release() as it tries to grab
nametbl_lock again while holding it already.
tipc_nametbl_withdraw() grabs nametbl_lock
  tipc_nametbl_remove_publ()
    tipc_subscrp_report_overlap()
      tipc_subscrp_send_event()
        tipc_conn_sendmsg()
          << if (con->flags != CF_CONNECTED) we do conn_put(),
             triggering the cleanup as refcount=0. >>
          tipc_conn_kref_release
            tipc_sock_release
              tipc_conn_release
                tipc_subscrb_delete
                  tipc_subscrp_delete
                    tipc_nametbl_unsubscribe << Soft Lockup >>

The previous changes in this series fixes the race conditions fixed
by commit 333f796235. Hence we can now revert the commit.

Fixes: 333f796235 ("tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug")
Reported-and-Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 16:14:58 -05:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan fc0adfc8fd tipc: fix connection refcount error
Until now, the generic server framework maintains the connection
id's per subscriber in server's conn_idr. At tipc_close_conn, we
remove the connection id from the server list, but the connection is
valid until we call the refcount cleanup. Hence we have a window
where the server allocates the same connection to an new subscriber
leading to inconsistent reference count. We have another refcount
warning we grab the refcount in tipc_conn_lookup() for connections
with flag with CF_CONNECTED not set. This usually occurs at shutdown
when the we stop the topology server and withdraw TIPC_CFG_SRV
publication thereby triggering a withdraw message to subscribers.

In this commit, we:
1. remove the connection from the server list at recount cleanup.
2. grab the refcount for a connection only if CF_CONNECTED is set.

Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-24 16:14:57 -05:00
Amitoj Kaur Chawla 810bf11033 tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy
Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
kmemdup.

The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
-  memcpy(to, from, size);

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-27 09:56:58 -04:00
Eric Dumazet b91083a45e tipc: block BH in TCP callbacks
TCP stack can now run from process context.

Use read_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock) variant to restore previous
assumption.

Fixes: 5413d1babe ("net: do not block BH while processing socket backlog")
Fixes: d41a69f1d3 ("tcp: make tcp_sendmsg() aware of socket backlog")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-19 11:36:49 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 333f796235 tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug
Until now, the requests sent to topology server are queued
to a workqueue by the generic server framework.
These messages are processed by worker threads and trigger the
registered callbacks.
To reduce latency on uniprocessor systems, explicit rescheduling
is performed using cond_resched() after MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT(25)
messages.

This implementation on SMP systems leads to an subscriber refcnt
error as described below:
When a worker thread yields by calling cond_resched() in a SMP
system, a new worker is created on another CPU to process the
pending workitem. Sometimes the sleeping thread wakes up before
the new thread finishes execution.
This breaks the assumption on ordering and being single threaded.
The fault is more frequent when MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT is lowered.

If the first thread was processing subscription create and the
second thread processing close(), the close request will free
the subscriber and the create request oops as follows:

[31.224137] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 266 at include/linux/kref.h:46 tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380         [tipc]
[31.228143] CPU: 2 PID: 266 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 4.5.0+ #97
[31.228377] Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_recv_work [tipc]
[...]
[31.228377] Call Trace:
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff812fbb6b>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x72
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff8105a311>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff8105a3fd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa0098067>] tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa00a4984>] tipc_receive_from_sock+0xd4/0x130 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa00a439b>] tipc_recv_work+0x2b/0x50 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff81071925>] process_one_work+0x145/0x3d0
[31.246554] ---[ end trace c3882c9baa05a4fd ]---
[31.248327] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#2, kworker/u8:1/266
[31.249119] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000428
[31.249323] IP: [<ffffffff81099d0c>] spin_dump+0x5c/0xe0
[31.249323] PGD 0
[31.249323] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this commit, we
- rename tipc_conn_shutdown() to tipc_conn_release().
- move connection release callback execution from tipc_close_conn()
  to a new function tipc_sock_release(), which is executed before
  we free the connection.
Thus we release the subscriber during connection release procedure
rather than connection shutdown procedure.

Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-14 16:46:46 -04:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 06c8581f85 tipc: use alloc_ordered_workqueue() instead of WQ_UNBOUND w/ max_active = 1
Until now, tipc_rcv and tipc_send workqueues in server are allocated
with parameters WQ_UNBOUND & max_active = 1.
This parameters passed to this function makes it equivalent to
alloc_ordered_workqueue(). The later form is more explicit and
can inherit future ordered_workqueue changes.

In this commit we replace alloc_workqueue() with more readable
alloc_ordered_workqueue().

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-06 03:41:58 -05:00
Ying Xue fa787ae062 tipc: use sock_create_kern interface to create kernel socket
After commit eeb1bd5c40 ("net: Add a struct net parameter to
sock_create_kern"), we should use sock_create_kern() to create kernel
socket as the interface doesn't reference count struct net any more.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-14 13:39:33 -04:00
Ying Xue 90bdfcb76f tipc: deal with return value of tipc_conn_new callback
Once tipc_conn_new() returns NULL, the connection should be shut
down immediately, otherwise, oops may happen due to the NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-04 15:04:01 -04:00
Ying Xue def81f69bf tipc: fix topology server broken issue
When a new topology server is launched in a new namespace, its
listening socket is inserted into the "init ns" namespace's socket
hash table rather than the one owned by the new namespace. Although
the socket's namespace is forcedly changed to the new namespace later,
the socket is still stored in the socket hash table of "init ns"
namespace. When a client created in the new namespace connects
its own topology server, the connection is failed as its server's
socket could not be found from its own namespace's socket table.

If __sock_create() instead of original sock_create_kern() is used
to create the server's socket through specifying an expected namesapce,
the socket will be inserted into the specified namespace's socket
table, thereby avoiding to the topology server broken issue.

Fixes: 76100a8a64 ("tipc: fix netns refcnt leak")

Reported-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-23 11:50:34 -04:00
Ying Xue 2b9bb7f338 tipc: withdraw tipc topology server name when namespace is deleted
The TIPC topology server is a per namespace service associated with the
tipc name {1, 1}. When a namespace is deleted, that name must be withdrawn
before we call sk_release_kernel because the kernel socket release is
done in init_net and trying to withdraw a TIPC name published in another
namespace will fail with an error as:

[  170.093264] Unable to remove local publication
[  170.093264] (type=1, lower=1, ref=2184244004, key=2184244005)

We fix this by breaking the association between the topology server name
and socket before calling sk_release_kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-17 22:11:26 -04:00
Ying Xue 76100a8a64 tipc: fix netns refcnt leak
When the TIPC module is loaded, we launch a topology server in kernel
space, which in its turn is creating TIPC sockets for communication
with topology server users. Because both the socket's creator and
provider reside in the same module, it is necessary that the TIPC
module's reference count remains zero after the server is started and
the socket created; otherwise it becomes impossible to perform "rmmod"
even on an idle module.

Currently, we achieve this by defining a separate "tipc_proto_kern"
protocol struct, that is used only for kernel space socket allocations.
This structure has the "owner" field set to NULL, which restricts the
module reference count from being be bumped when sk_alloc() for local
sockets is called. Furthermore, we have defined three kernel-specific
functions, tipc_sock_create_local(), tipc_sock_release_local() and
tipc_sock_accept_local(), to avoid the module counter being modified
when module local sockets are created or deleted. This has worked well
until we introduced name space support.

However, after name space support was introduced, we have observed that
a reference count leak occurs, because the netns counter is not
decremented in tipc_sock_delete_local().

This commit remedies this problem. But instead of just modifying
tipc_sock_delete_local(), we eliminate the whole parallel socket
handling infrastructure, and start using the regular sk_create_kern(),
kernel_accept() and sk_release_kernel() calls. Since those functions
manipulate the module counter, we must now compensate for that by
explicitly decrementing the counter after module local sockets are
created, and increment it just before calling sk_release_kernel().

Fixes: a62fbccecd ("tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace")
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reported-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-17 22:11:26 -04:00
Ying Xue a62fbccecd tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace
TIPC establishes one subscriber server which allows users to subscribe
their interesting name service status. After tipc supports namespace,
one dedicated tipc stack instance is created for each namespace, and
each instance can be deemed as one independent TIPC node. As a result,
subscriber server must be built for each namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12 16:24:33 -05:00
Ying Xue 4ac1c8d0ee tipc: name tipc name table support net namespace
TIPC name table is used to store the mapping relationship between
TIPC service name and socket port ID. When tipc supports namespace,
it allows users to publish service names only owned by a certain
namespace. Therefore, every namespace must have its private name
table to prevent service names published to one namespace from being
contaminated by other service names in another namespace. Therefore,
The name table global variable (ie, nametbl) and its lock must be
moved to tipc_net structure, and a parameter of namespace must be
added for necessary functions so that they can obtain name table
variable defined in tipc_net structure.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12 16:24:33 -05:00
Ying Xue 859fc7c0ce tipc: cleanup core.c and core.h files
Only the works of initializing and shutting down tipc module are done
in core.h and core.c files, so all stuffs which are not closely
associated with the two tasks should be moved to appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12 16:24:31 -05:00
David S. Miller 676d23690f net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks.
Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&sk->s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb->len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb->len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
Ying Xue 4652edb70e tipc: fix connection refcount leak
When tipc_conn_sendmsg() calls tipc_conn_lookup() to query a
connection instance, its reference count value is increased if
it's found. But subsequently if it's found that the connection is
closed, the work of sending message is not queued into its server
send workqueue, and the connection reference count is not decreased.
This will cause a reference count leak. To reproduce this problem,
an application would need to open and closes topology server
connections with high intensity.

We fix this by immediately decrementing the connection reference
count if a send fails due to the connection being closed.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-06 14:46:23 -05:00
Ying Xue 6d4ebeb4df tipc: allow connection shutdown callback to be invoked in advance
Currently connection shutdown callback function is called when
connection instance is released in tipc_conn_kref_release(), and
receiving packets and sending packets are running in different
threads. Even if connection is closed by the thread of receiving
packets, its shutdown callback may not be called immediately as
the connection reference count is non-zero at that moment. So,
although the connection is shut down by the thread of receiving
packets, the thread of sending packets doesn't know it. Before
its shutdown callback is invoked to tell the sending thread its
connection has been closed, the sending thread may deliver
messages by tipc_conn_sendmsg(), this is why the following error
information appears:

"Sending subscription event failed, no memory"

To eliminate it, allow connection shutdown callback function to
be called before connection id is removed in tipc_close_conn(),
which makes the sending thread know the truth in time that its
socket is closed so that it doesn't send message to it. We also
remove the "Sending XXX failed..." error reporting for topology
and config services.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-06 14:46:23 -05:00
Ying Xue 9fe7ed4749 tipc: remove all enabled flags from all tipc components
When tipc module is inserted, many tipc components are initialized
one by one. During the initialization period, if one of them is
failed, tipc_core_stop() will be called to stop all components
whatever corresponding components are created or not. To avoid to
release uncreated ones, relevant components have to add necessary
enabled flags indicating whether they are created or not.

But in the initialization stage, if one component is unsuccessfully
created, we will just destroy successfully created components before
the failed component instead of all components. All enabled flags
defined in components, in turn, become redundant. Additionally it's
also unnecessary to identify whether table.types is NULL in
tipc_nametbl_stop() because name stable has been definitely created
successfully when tipc_nametbl_stop() is called.

Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-22 00:00:15 -05:00
stephen hemminger 963a185539 tipc: spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14 18:18:22 -08:00
Ying Xue c756891a4e tipc: fix oops when creating server socket fails
When creation of TIPC internal server socket fails,
we get an oops with the following dump:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
IP: [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
PGD 13719067 PUD 12008067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: tipc(+)
CPU: 4 PID: 4340 Comm: insmod Not tainted 3.10.0+ #1
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
task: ffff880014360000 ti: ffff88001374c000 task.ti: ffff88001374c000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0011f49>]  [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
RSP: 0018:ffff88001374dc98  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880012ac09d8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880014360000
RBP: ffff88001374dcb8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffa0016fa0
R13: ffffffffa0017010 R14: ffffffffa0017010 R15: ffff880012ac09d8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880016600000(0063) knlGS:00000000f76668d0
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000012227000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Stack:
ffff88001374dcb8 ffffffffa0016fa0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
ffff88001374dcf8 ffffffffa0012922 ffff88001374dce8 00000000ffffffea
ffffffffa0017100 0000000000000000 ffff8800134241a8 ffffffffa0017150
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0012922>] tipc_server_stop+0xa2/0x1b0 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa0009995>] tipc_subscr_stop+0x15/0x20 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa00130f5>] tipc_core_stop+0x1d/0x33 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa001f0d4>] tipc_init+0xd4/0xf8 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa001f000>] ? 0xffffffffa001efff
[<ffffffff8100023f>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x150
[<ffffffff81082f4d>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x7d/0xd0
[<ffffffff810cc58a>] load_module+0x11aa/0x19c0
[<ffffffff810c8d60>] ? show_initstate+0x50/0x50
[<ffffffff8190311c>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[<ffffffff810cce79>] SyS_init_module+0xd9/0x110
[<ffffffff8190dc65>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1f
Code: 6c 24 70 4c 89 ef e8 b7 04 8f e1 8b 73 04 4c 89 e7 e8 7c 9e 32 e1 41 83 ac 24
b8 00 00 00 01 4c 89 ef e8 eb 0a 8f e1 48 8b 43 08 <4c> 8b 68 20 4d 8d a5 48 03 00
00 4c 89 e7 e8 04 05 8f e1 4c 89
RIP  [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
RSP <ffff88001374dc98>
CR2: 0000000000000020
---[ end trace b02321f40e4269a3 ]---

We have the following call chain:

tipc_core_start()
    ret = tipc_subscr_start()
        ret = tipc_server_start(){
                  server->enabled = 1;
                  ret = tipc_open_listening_sock()
              }

I.e., the server->enabled flag is unconditionally set to 1, whatever
the return value of tipc_open_listening_sock().

This causes a crash when tipc_core_start() tries to clean up
resources after a failed initialization:

    if (ret == failed)
        tipc_subscr_stop()
            tipc_server_stop(){
                if (server->enabled)
                    tipc_close_conn(){
                        NULL reference of con->sock-sk
                        OOPS!
                }
            }

To avoid this, tipc_server_start() should only set server->enabled
to 1 in case of a succesful socket creation. In case of failure, it
should release all allocated resources before returning.

Problem introduced in commit c5fa7b3cf3
("tipc: introduce new TIPC server infrastructure") in v3.11-rc1.
Note that it won't be seen often; it takes a module load under memory
constrained conditions in order to trigger the failure condition.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-01 15:54:33 -07:00
Ying Xue c5fa7b3cf3 tipc: introduce new TIPC server infrastructure
TIPC has two internal servers, one providing a subscription
service for topology events, and another providing the
configuration interface. These servers have previously been running
in BH context, accessing the TIPC-port (aka native) API directly.
Apart from these servers, even the TIPC socket implementation is
partially built on this API.

As this API may simultaneously be called via different paths and in
different contexts, a complex and costly lock policiy is required
in order to protect TIPC internal resources.

To eliminate the need for this complex lock policiy, we introduce
a new, generic service API that uses kernel sockets for message
passing instead of the native API. Once the toplogy and configuration
servers are converted to use this new service, all code pertaining
to the native API can be removed. This entails a significant
reduction in code amount and complexity, and opens up for a complete
rework of the locking policy in TIPC.

The new service also solves another problem:

As the current topology server works in BH context, it cannot easily
be blocked when sending of events fails due to congestion. In such
cases events may have to be silently dropped, something that is
unacceptable. Therefore, the new service keeps a dedicated outbound
queue receiving messages from BH context. Once messages are
inserted into this queue, we will immediately schedule a work from a
special workqueue. This way, messages/events from the topology server
are in reality sent in process context, and the server can block
if necessary.

Analogously, there is a new workqueue for receiving messages. Once a
notification about an arriving message is received in BH context, we
schedule a work from the receive workqueue to do the job of
receiving the message in process context.

As both sending and receive messages are now finished in processes,
subscribed events cannot be dropped any more.

As of this commit, this new server infrastructure is built, but
not actually yet called by the existing TIPC code, but since the
conversion changes required in order to use it are significant,
the addition is kept here as a separate commit.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-17 15:53:00 -07:00