net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks

Adding memory barrier after the poll_wait function, paired with
receive callbacks. Adding fuctions sock_poll_wait and sk_has_sleeper
to wrap the memory barrier.

Without the memory barrier, following race can happen.
The race fires, when following code paths meet, and the tp->rcv_nxt
and __add_wait_queue updates stay in CPU caches.

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)
                                ...
                             }

If there was no cache the code would work ok, since the wait_queue and
rcv_nxt are opposit to each other.

Meaning that once tp->rcv_nxt is updated by CPU2, the CPU1 either already
passed the tp->rcv_nxt check and sleeps, or will get the new value for
tp->rcv_nxt and will return with new data mask.
In both cases the process (CPU1) is being added to the wait queue, so the
waitqueue_active (CPU2) call cannot miss and will wake up CPU1.

The bad case is 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 will then
endup calling schedule and sleep forever if there are no more data on the
socket.

Calls to poll_wait in following modules were ommited:
	net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
	net/irda/af_irda.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
	net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_debugfs.c
	net/phonet/socket.c
	net/rds/af_rds.c
	net/rfkill/core.c
	net/sunrpc/cache.c
	net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
	net/tipc/socket.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 352f06bb..4eb8409 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