On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> So looking at this trace I think its the other->sk_socket that gets
> freed and then we call sk_wake_async() on it.
>
> We could I think grab the socket reference there with unix_state_lock(),
> since that is held by unix_release_sock() before the final iput() is called.
>
> So something like below might work (compile tested only):
Ewww...
> +struct socket *unix_peer_get_socket(struct sock *s)
> +{
> + struct socket *peer;
> +
> + unix_state_lock(s);
> + peer = s->sk_socket;
> + if (peer)
> + __iget(SOCK_INODE(s->sk_socket));
> + unix_state_unlock(s);
> +
> + return peer;
> out_err:
> + if (other_socket)
> + iput(SOCK_INODE(other_socket));
> scm_destroy(&scm);
> return sent ? : err;
> }
Interplay between socket, file and inode lifetimes is already too convoluted,
and this just makes it nastier. I don't have a ready solution at the moment,
but this one is too ugly to live.
Al, digging through RTFS(net/unix/af_unix.c) right now...
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