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authorJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>2014-11-19 23:05:49 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-11-20 22:57:03 -0500
commit01462405f0c093b2f8dfddafcadcda6c9e4c5cdf (patch)
treeb405f0cb9c2f653335ef88507f8ba6d16600c87a /security
parentd3052bb5d306b29c1e7d9e5998c5ac4ca1ff0ca9 (diff)
ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx_recvmsg
This fixes an old regression introduced by commit b0d0d915 (ipx: remove the BKL). When a recvmsg syscall blocks waiting for new data, no data can be sent on the same socket with sendmsg because ipx_recvmsg() sleeps with the socket locked. This breaks mars-nwe (NetWare emulator): - the ncpserv process reads the request using recvmsg - ncpserv forks and spawns nwconn - ncpserv calls a (blocking) recvmsg and waits for new requests - nwconn deadlocks in sendmsg on the same socket Commit b0d0d915 has simply replaced BKL locking with lock_sock/release_sock. Unlike now, BKL got unlocked while sleeping, so a blocking recvmsg did not block a concurrent sendmsg. Only keep the socket locked while actually working with the socket data and release it prior to calling skb_recv_datagram(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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