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When client on the host tries to connect(SOCK_STREAM, O_NONBLOCK) to the server on the guest, there will be a panic on a ThunderX2 (armv8a server): [ 463.718844] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ 463.718848] Mem abort info: [ 463.718849] ESR = 0x96000044 [ 463.718852] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 463.718853] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 463.718854] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 463.718855] Data abort info: [ 463.718856] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044 [ 463.718857] CM = 0, WnR = 1 [ 463.718859] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000008f6f6e9000 [ 463.718861] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000 [ 463.718866] Internal error: Oops: 96000044 [#1] SMP [...] [ 463.718977] CPU: 213 PID: 5040 Comm: vhost-5032 Tainted: G O 5.7.0-rc7+ #139 [ 463.718980] Hardware name: GIGABYTE R281-T91-00/MT91-FS1-00, BIOS F06 09/25/2018 [ 463.718982] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO) [ 463.718995] pc : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.718999] lr : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1fc/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.719000] sp : ffff80002dbe3c40 [...] [ 463.719025] Call trace: [ 463.719030] virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.719034] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x360/0x408 [vhost_vsock] [ 463.719041] vhost_worker+0x100/0x1a0 [vhost] [ 463.719048] kthread+0x128/0x130 [ 463.719052] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 The race condition is as follows: Task1 Task2 ===== ===== __sock_release virtio_transport_recv_pkt __vsock_release vsock_find_bound_socket (found sk) lock_sock_nested vsock_remove_sock sock_orphan sk_set_socket(sk, NULL) sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK ... release_sock lock_sock virtio_transport_recv_connecting sk->sk_socket->state (panic!) The root cause is that vsock_find_bound_socket can't hold the lock_sock, so there is a small race window between vsock_find_bound_socket() and lock_sock(). If __vsock_release() is running in another task, sk->sk_socket will be set to NULL inadvertently. This fixes it by checking sk->sk_shutdown(suggested by Stefano) after lock_sock since sk->sk_shutdown is set to SHUTDOWN_MASK under the protection of lock_sock_nested. Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.