Hi Dexan, Stephano,

This solution has been proposed here,
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2022-August/062656.html

Best regards,
Frédéric

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:43 AM Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 01:56:46PM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> >Currently vsock_connectible_has_data() may miss a wakeup operation
> >between vsock_connectible_has_data() == 0 and the prepare_to_wait().
> >
> >Fix the race by adding the process to the wait qeuue before checking
>
> s/qeuue/queue
>
> >vsock_connectible_has_data().
> >
> >Fixes: b3f7fd54881b ("af_vsock: separate wait data loop")
> >Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>
> >---
> > net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >index d258fd43092e..03a6b5bc6ba7 100644
> >--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >@@ -1905,8 +1905,11 @@ static int vsock_connectible_wait_data(struct sock
> *sk,
> >       err = 0;
> >       transport = vsk->transport;
> >
> >-      while ((data = vsock_connectible_has_data(vsk)) == 0) {
> >+      while (1) {
> >               prepare_to_wait(sk_sleep(sk), wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> >+              data = vsock_connectible_has_data(vsk);
> >+              if (data != 0)
> >+                      break;
> >
> >               if (sk->sk_err != 0 ||
> >                   (sk->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN) ||
> >@@ -1937,6 +1940,8 @@ static int vsock_connectible_wait_data(struct sock
> *sk,
> >                       err = -EAGAIN;
> >                       break;
> >               }
> >+
> >+              finish_wait(sk_sleep(sk), wait);
>
> Since we are going to call again prepare_to_wait() on top of the loop,
> is finish_wait() call here really needed?
>
> What about following what we do in vsock_accept and vsock_connect?
>
>      prepare_to_wait()
>
>      while (condition) {
>          ...
>          prepare_to_wait();
>      }
>
>      finish_wait()
>
> I find it a little more readable, but your solution is fine too.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>
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