Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix sleep in atomic context bug in timer handlers

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
Date: Sun Jul 24 2022 - 09:14:12 EST


Hi,

On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 09:58:09AM +0800, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> There are sleep in atomic context bugs in timer handlers of sctp
> such as sctp_generate_t3_rtx_event(), sctp_generate_probe_event(),
> sctp_generate_t1_init_event(), sctp_generate_timeout_event(),
> sctp_generate_t3_rtx_event() and so on.
>
> The root cause is sctp_sched_prio_init_sid() with GFP_KERNEL parameter
> that may sleep could be called by different timer handlers which is in
> interrupt context.
>
> One of the call paths that could trigger bug is shown below:
>
> (interrupt context)
> sctp_generate_probe_event
> sctp_do_sm
> sctp_side_effects
> sctp_cmd_interpreter
> sctp_outq_teardown
> sctp_outq_init

This sequence is odd but it is used when handling dup cookies. It
tears down whatever was in there and re-inits it. With that,

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>

> sctp_sched_set_sched
> n->init_sid(..,GFP_KERNEL)
> sctp_sched_prio_init_sid //may sleep