af_packet: fix soft lockup issue caused by tpacket_snd()
commit 55f0bfc0370539213202f4ce1a07615327ac4713 upstream. When MSG_DONTWAIT is not set, the tpacket_snd operation will wait for pending_refcnt to decrement to zero before returning. The pending_refcnt is decremented by 1 when the skb->destructor function is called, indicating that the skb has been successfully sent and needs to be destroyed. If an error occurs during this process, the tpacket_snd() function will exit and return error, but pending_refcnt may not yet have decremented to zero. Assuming the next send operation is executed immediately, but there are no available frames to be sent in tx_ring (i.e., packet_current_frame returns NULL), and skb is also NULL, the function will not execute wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() to yield the CPU. Instead, it will enter a do-while loop, waiting for pending_refcnt to be zero. Even if the previous skb has completed transmission, the skb->destructor function can only be invoked in the ksoftirqd thread (assuming NAPI threading is enabled). When both the ksoftirqd thread and the tpacket_snd operation happen to run on the same CPU, and the CPU trapped in the do-while loop without yielding, the ksoftirqd thread will not get scheduled to run. As a result, pending_refcnt will never be reduced to zero, and the do-while loop cannot exit, eventually leading to a CPU soft lockup issue. In fact, skb is true for all but the first iterations of that loop, and as long as pending_refcnt is not zero, even if incremented by a previous call, wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() should be executed to yield the CPU, allowing the ksoftirqd thread to be scheduled. Therefore, the execution condition of this function should be modified to check if pending_refcnt is not zero, instead of check skb. - if (need_wait && skb) { + if (need_wait && packet_read_pending(&po->tx_ring)) { As a result, the judgment conditions are duplicated with the end code of the while loop, and packet_read_pending() is a very expensive function. Actually, this loop can only exit when ph is NULL, so the loop condition can be changed to while (1), and in the "ph = NULL" branch, if the subsequent condition of if is not met, the loop can break directly. Now, the loop logic remains the same as origin but is clearer and more obvious. Fixes: 89ed5b51 ("af_packet: Block execution of tasks waiting for transmit to complete in AF_PACKET") Cc: stable@kernel.org Suggested-by:LongJun Tang <tanglongjun@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by:
Yun Lu <luyun@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by:
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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