[140/272] net: add POLLPRI to sock_def_readable()

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 20:28:15 EST


2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 2c6607c611cb7bf0a6750bcea34a258144e302c5 ]

Leonardo Chiquitto found poll() could block forever on tcp sockets and
Urgent data was received, if the event flag only contains POLLPRI.

He did a bisection and found commit 4938d7e0233 (poll: avoid extra
wakeups in select/poll) was the source of the problem.

Problem is TCP sockets use standard sock_def_readable() function for
their sk_data_ready() handler, and sock_def_readable() doesnt signal
POLLPRI.

Only TCP is affected by the problem. Adding POLLPRI to the list of flags
might trigger unnecessary schedules, but URGENT handling is such a
seldom used feature this seems a good compromise.

Thanks a lot to Leonardo for providing the bisection result and a test
program as well.

Reference : http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg151793.html

Reported-and-bisected-by: Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
net/core/sock.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@ static void sock_def_readable(struct soc
rcu_read_lock();
wq = rcu_dereference(sk->sk_wq);
if (wq_has_sleeper(wq))
- wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&wq->wait, POLLIN |
+ wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&wq->wait, POLLIN | POLLPRI |
POLLRDNORM | POLLRDBAND);
sk_wake_async(sk, SOCK_WAKE_WAITD, POLL_IN);
rcu_read_unlock();


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