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)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:59:10 +0000 (13:59 +0100)
commit6ae0c8a55ca636d8fe83987c5c7c44d8beec892e
treebc5dbbaa818dd8f289400c43a1100a80d9f28505
parent2f13212af9ffd93c8b6b15c206ff19f98bcd3297
af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock

[ Upstream commit 0fb44559ffd67de8517098b81f675fa0210f13f0 ]

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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
net/unix/af_unix.c