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af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:17:35 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 4 Feb 2017 08:47:10 +0000 (09:47 +0100)
commit93ff5e03bcba0761055491dc6bf52b1e0e33bbe6
treebc0f152a616a2bc07c6c1c4b44bce468710eea12
parent37b27b20a8a948ce5dfbd6e47272fd59e8bd0232
af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock

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Dmitry reported a deadlock scenario:

unix_bind() path:
u->bindlock ==> sb_writer

do_splice() path:
sb_writer ==> pipe->mutex ==> u->bindlock

In the unix_bind() code path, unix_mknod() does not have to
be done with u->bindlock held, since it is a pure fs operation,
so we can just move unix_mknod() out.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/unix/af_unix.c