SUNRPC: Fix races in xs_nospace()
When a send failure occurs due to the socket being out of buffer space,
we call xs_nospace() in order to have the RPC task wait until the
socket has drained enough to make it worth while trying again.
The current patch fixes a race in which the socket is drained before
we get round to setting up the machinery in xs_nospace(), and which
is reported to cause hangs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140210170315.33dfc621@notabene.brown
Fixes: a9a6b52ee1ba (SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer...)
Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index 817a1e5..0addefc 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -510,6 +510,7 @@
struct rpc_rqst *req = task->tk_rqstp;
struct rpc_xprt *xprt = req->rq_xprt;
struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct sock_xprt, xprt);
+ struct sock *sk = transport->inet;
int ret = -EAGAIN;
dprintk("RPC: %5u xmit incomplete (%u left of %u)\n",
@@ -527,7 +528,7 @@
* window size
*/
set_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &transport->sock->flags);
- transport->inet->sk_write_pending++;
+ sk->sk_write_pending++;
/* ...and wait for more buffer space */
xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(task, xs_nospace_callback);
}
@@ -537,6 +538,9 @@
}
spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
+
+ /* Race breaker in case memory is freed before above code is called */
+ sk->sk_write_space(sk);
return ret;
}