Re: [PATCH] NFC: llcp: fix nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() lockup

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 02:44:31 EST




On 06/25/2018 10:12 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (06/26/18 07:07), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> [..]
>>> #include <net/nfc/nfc.h>
>>> @@ -755,7 +756,8 @@ int nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame(struct nfc_llcp_sock *sock, u8 ssap, u8 dsap,
>>> pdu = nfc_alloc_send_skb(sock->dev, &sock->sk, MSG_DONTWAIT,
>>> frag_len + LLCP_HEADER_SIZE, &err);
>>> if (pdu == NULL) {
>>> - pr_err("Could not allocate PDU\n");
>>> + pr_err_ratelimited("Could not allocate PDU\n");
>>> + cond_resched();
>>> continue;
>>> }
>>
>>
>> But this thread is still in an infinite (unkillable?) loop? If yes, we
>> are waiting for the next syzbot report ;)
>
> The loop is still infinite, correct, but we have a preemption point now.
> Sure, net people can come with a much better solution, I'll be happy to
> scratch my patch.
>

This can not be the right solution, think about current thread being real time,
cond_resched() might be a nop.

We should probably not loop at all, or not use MSG_DONTWAIT.

(And remove this useless "Could not allocate PDU" message)

NFC maintainers should really take a look at this.