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authorJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>2014-11-19 23:05:49 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-12-06 15:55:34 -0800
commit8b25535501e3c9d8403fef20c3c272399394bc4f (patch)
treefe32ce0a34eb19821ebd96856f4d6fc121eee236 /drivers
parent32b849a714aad7701a1fc53953272b83a6dc483a (diff)
ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx_recvmsg
[ Upstream commit 01462405f0c093b2f8dfddafcadcda6c9e4c5cdf ] 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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