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mptcp: fix possible deadlock in subflow_error_report
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Christoph reported a possible deadlock while the TCP stack
destroys an unaccepted subflow due to an incoming reset: the
MPTCP socket error path tries to acquire the msk-level socket
lock while TCP still owns the listener socket accept queue
spinlock, and the reverse dependency already exists in the
TCP stack.

Note that the above is actually a lockdep false positive, as
the chain involves two separate sockets. A different per-socket
lockdep key will address the issue, but such a change will be
quite invasive.

Instead, we can simply stop earlier the socket error handling
for orphaned or unaccepted subflows, breaking the critical
lockdep chain. Error handling in such a scenario is a no-op.

Reported-and-tested-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Fixes: 15cc104 ("mptcp: deliver ssk errors to msk")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next#355
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Paolo Abeni authored and kuba-moo committed Mar 11, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -1432,6 +1432,13 @@ static void subflow_error_report(struct sock *ssk)
{
struct sock *sk = mptcp_subflow_ctx(ssk)->conn;

/* bail early if this is a no-op, so that we avoid introducing a
* problematic lockdep dependency between TCP accept queue lock
* and msk socket spinlock
*/
if (!sk->sk_socket)
return;

mptcp_data_lock(sk);
if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk))
__mptcp_error_report(sk);
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