net: Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector

This is an implementation of David Miller's suggested fix in:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201

It has been updated to use wait_event() instead of
wait_event_interruptible().

Paraphrasing the description from the above report, it makes sendmsg()
block while UNIX garbage collection is in progress. This avoids a
situation where child processes continue to queue new FDs over a
AF_UNIX socket to a parent which is in the exit path and running
garbage collection on these FDs. This contention can result in soft
lockups and oom-killing of unrelated processes.

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/unix/garbage.c b/net/unix/garbage.c
index 6d4a9a8de5e..abb3ab34cb1 100644
--- a/net/unix/garbage.c
+++ b/net/unix/garbage.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
 
 #include <net/sock.h>
 #include <net/af_unix.h>
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@
 static LIST_HEAD(gc_inflight_list);
 static LIST_HEAD(gc_candidates);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(unix_gc_lock);
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(unix_gc_wait);
 
 unsigned int unix_tot_inflight;
 
@@ -266,12 +268,16 @@ static void inc_inflight_move_tail(struct unix_sock *u)
 		list_move_tail(&u->link, &gc_candidates);
 }
 
-/* The external entry point: unix_gc() */
+static bool gc_in_progress = false;
 
-void unix_gc(void)
+void wait_for_unix_gc(void)
 {
-	static bool gc_in_progress = false;
+	wait_event(unix_gc_wait, gc_in_progress == false);
+}
 
+/* The external entry point: unix_gc() */
+void unix_gc(void)
+{
 	struct unix_sock *u;
 	struct unix_sock *next;
 	struct sk_buff_head hitlist;
@@ -376,6 +382,7 @@ void unix_gc(void)
 	/* All candidates should have been detached by now. */
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&gc_candidates));
 	gc_in_progress = false;
+	wake_up(&unix_gc_wait);
 
  out:
 	spin_unlock(&unix_gc_lock);