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    genetlink: synchronize socket closing and family removal · ee1c2442
    Johannes Berg authored
    
    
    In addition to the problem Jeff Layton reported, I looked at the code
    and reproduced the same warning by subscribing and removing the genl
    family with a socket still open. This is a fairly tricky race which
    originates in the fact that generic netlink allows the family to go
    away while sockets are still open - unlike regular netlink which has
    a module refcount for every open socket so in general this cannot be
    triggered.
    
    Trying to resolve this issue by the obvious locking isn't possible as
    it will result in deadlocks between unregistration and group unbind
    notification (which incidentally lockdep doesn't find due to the home
    grown locking in the netlink table.)
    
    To really resolve this, introduce a "closing socket" reference counter
    (for generic netlink only, as it's the only affected family) in the
    core netlink code and use that in generic netlink to wait for all the
    sockets that are being closed at the same time as a generic netlink
    family is removed.
    
    This fixes the race that when a socket is closed, it will should call
    the unbind, but if the family is removed at the same time the unbind
    will not find it, leading to the warning. The real problem though is
    that in this case the unbind could actually find a new family that is
    registered to have a multicast group with the same ID, and call its
    mcast_unbind() leading to confusing.
    
    Also remove the warning since it would still trigger, but is now no
    longer a problem.
    
    This also moves the code in af_netlink.c to before unreferencing the
    module to avoid having the same problem in the normal non-genl case.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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