Re: [PATCH v2] net: l2tp: unlock socket lock before returning froml2tp_ip_sendmsg

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 02 2012 - 21:05:18 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 16:32:36 +0200

> On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> l2tp_ip_sendmsg could return without releasing socket lock, making it all the
>> way to userspace, and generating the following warning:
>>
>> [ 130.891594] ================================================
>> [ 130.894569] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
>> [ 130.897257] 3.4.0-rc5-next-20120501-sasha #104 Tainted: G W
>> [ 130.900336] ------------------------------------------------
>> [ 130.902996] trinity/8384 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>> [ 130.906106] 1 lock held by trinity/8384:
>> [ 130.907924] #0: (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff82b9503f>] l2tp_ip_sendmsg+0x2f/0x550
>>
>> Introduced by commit 2f16270 ("l2tp: Fix locking in l2tp_ip.c").
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Oh well, please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
>
> Also, David prefers to handle stable submissions himself for net tree.
>
> Anyway :
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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