When client on the host tries to connect(SOCK_STREAM, O_NONBLOCK) to the server on the guest, there will be a panic on a ThunderX2 (armv8a server):

[ 463.718844] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ 463.718848] Mem abort info: [ 463.718849] ESR = 0x96000044 [ 463.718852] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 463.718853] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 463.718854] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 463.718855] Data abort info: [ 463.718856] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044 [ 463.718857] CM = 0, WnR = 1 [ 463.718859] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000008f6f6e9000 [ 463.718861] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000 [ 463.718866] Internal error: Oops: 96000044 [#1] SMP [...] [ 463.718977] CPU: 213 PID: 5040 Comm: vhost-5032 Tainted: G O 5.7.0-rc7+ #139 [ 463.718980] Hardware name: GIGABYTE R281-T91-00/MT91-FS1-00, BIOS F06 09/25/2018 [ 463.718982] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO) [ 463.718995] pc : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.718999] lr : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1fc/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.719000] sp : ffff80002dbe3c40 [...] [ 463.719025] Call trace: [ 463.719030] virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common] [ 463.719034] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x360/0x408 [vhost_vsock] [ 463.719041] vhost_worker+0x100/0x1a0 [vhost] [ 463.719048] kthread+0x128/0x130 [ 463.719052] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

The race condition is as follows: Task1 Task2 ===== ===== __sock_release virtio_transport_recv_pkt __vsock_release vsock_find_bound_socket (found sk) lock_sock_nested vsock_remove_sock sock_orphan sk_set_socket(sk, NULL) sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK ... release_sock lock_sock virtio_transport_recv_connecting sk->sk_socket->state (panic!)

The root cause is that vsock_find_bound_socket can't hold the lock_sock, so there is a small race window between vsock_find_bound_socket() and lock_sock(). If __vsock_release() is running in another task, sk->sk_socket will be set to NULL inadvertently.

This fixes it by checking sk->sk_shutdown(suggested by Stefano) after lock_sock since sk->sk_shutdown is set to SHUTDOWN_MASK under the protection of lock_sock_nested.

Signed-off-by: Jia He justin.he@arm.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com --- v3: - describe the fix of race condition more clearly - refine the commit log

net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c index 69efc891885f..0edda1edf988 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -1132,6 +1132,14 @@ void virtio_transport_recv_pkt(struct virtio_transport *t,

lock_sock(sk);

+ /* Check if sk has been released before lock_sock */ + if (sk->sk_shutdown == SHUTDOWN_MASK) { + (void)virtio_transport_reset_no_sock(t, pkt); + release_sock(sk); + sock_put(sk); + goto free_pkt; + } + /* Update CID in case it has changed after a transport reset event */ vsk->local_addr.svm_cid = dst.svm_cid;