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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/sock.h | 66 |
1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index 352f06bbd7a9..4eb8409249f6 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ #include <linux/filter.h> #include <linux/rculist_nulls.h> +#include <linux/poll.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> #include <net/dst.h> @@ -1241,6 +1242,71 @@ static inline int sk_has_allocations(const struct sock *sk) return sk_wmem_alloc_get(sk) || sk_rmem_alloc_get(sk); } +/** + * sk_has_sleeper - check if there are any waiting processes + * @sk: socket + * + * Returns true if socket has waiting processes + * + * The purpose of the sk_has_sleeper and sock_poll_wait is to wrap the memory + * barrier call. They were added due to the race found within the tcp code. + * + * Consider following tcp code paths: + * + * CPU1 CPU2 + * + * sys_select receive packet + * ... ... + * __add_wait_queue update tp->rcv_nxt + * ... ... + * tp->rcv_nxt check sock_def_readable + * ... { + * schedule ... + * if (sk->sk_sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sk_sleep)) + * wake_up_interruptible(sk->sk_sleep) + * ... + * } + * + * The race for tcp fires when the __add_wait_queue changes done by CPU1 stay + * in its cache, and so does the tp->rcv_nxt update on CPU2 side. The CPU1 + * could then endup calling schedule and sleep forever if there are no more + * data on the socket. + */ +static inline int sk_has_sleeper(struct sock *sk) +{ + /* + * We need to be sure we are in sync with the + * add_wait_queue modifications to the wait queue. + * + * This memory barrier is paired in the sock_poll_wait. + */ + smp_mb(); + return sk->sk_sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sk_sleep); +} + +/** + * sock_poll_wait - place memory barrier behind the poll_wait call. + * @filp: file + * @wait_address: socket wait queue + * @p: poll_table + * + * See the comments in the sk_has_sleeper function. + */ +static inline void sock_poll_wait(struct file *filp, + wait_queue_head_t *wait_address, poll_table *p) +{ + if (p && wait_address) { + poll_wait(filp, wait_address, p); + /* + * We need to be sure we are in sync with the + * socket flags modification. + * + * This memory barrier is paired in the sk_has_sleeper. + */ + smp_mb(); + } +} + /* * Queue a received datagram if it will fit. Stream and sequenced * protocols can't normally use this as they need to fit buffers in |