[ Upstream commit 0b9130247f3b6a1122478471ff0e014ea96bb735 ]
syzbot reported a memory leak in nr_create() [0].
Commit 409db27e3a ("netrom: Fix use-after-free of a listening socket.")
added sock_hold() to the nr_heartbeat_expiry() function, where
a) a socket has a SOCK_DESTROY flag or
b) a listening socket has a SOCK_DEAD flag.
But in the case "a," when the SOCK_DESTROY flag is set, the file descriptor
has already been closed and the nr_release() function has been called.
So it makes no sense to hold the reference count because no one will
call another nr_destroy_socket() and put it as in the case "b."
nr_connect
nr_establish_data_link
nr_start_heartbeat
nr_release
switch (nr->state)
case NR_STATE_3
nr->state = NR_STATE_2
sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DESTROY);
nr_rx_frame
nr_process_rx_frame
switch (nr->state)
case NR_STATE_2
nr_state2_machine()
nr_disconnect()
nr_sk(sk)->state = NR_STATE_0
sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)
nr_heartbeat_expiry
switch (nr->state)
case NR_STATE_0
if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DESTROY) ||
(sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN
&& sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)))
sock_hold() // ( !!! )
nr_destroy_socket()
To fix the memory leak, let's call sock_hold() only for a listening socket.
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
[0]: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d327a1f3b12e1e206c16
Reported-by: syzbot+d327a1f3b12e1e206c16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d327a1f3b12e1e206c16
Fixes: 409db27e3a ("netrom: Fix use-after-free of a listening socket.")
Signed-off-by: Gavrilov Ilia <Ilia.Gavrilov@infotecs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit d380ce70058a4ccddc3e5f5c2063165dc07672c6 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit bc76645ebdd01be9b9994dac39685a3d0f6f7985 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit b5dffcb8f71bdd02a4e5799985b51b12f4eeaf76 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit f99b494b40431f0ca416859f2345746199398e2b ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit a2e706841488f474c06e9b33f71afc947fb3bf56 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 43547d8699439a67b78d6bb39015113f7aa360fd ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 806f462ba9029d41aadf8ec93f2f99c5305deada ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit e799299aafed417cc1f32adccb2a0e5268b3f6d5 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 60a7a152abd494ed4f69098cf0f322e6bb140612 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 119cae5ea3f9e35cdada8e572cc067f072fa825a ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value because the
value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit cfd9f4a740f772298308b2e6070d2c744fb5cf79 ]
We need to protect the reader reading the sysctl value
because the value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 958d6145a6d9ba9e075c921aead8753fb91c9101 ]
We need to protect the reader reading sysctl_netrom_default_path_quality
because the value can be changed concurrently.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Simon Kapadia reported the following issue:
<quote>
The Online Amateur Radio Community (OARC) has recently been experimenting
with building a nationwide packet network in the UK.
As part of our experimentation, we have been testing out packet on 300bps HF,
and playing with net/rom. For HF packet at this baud rate you really need
to make sure that your MTU is relatively low; AX.25 suggests a PACLEN of 60,
and a net/rom PACLEN of 40 to go with that.
However the Linux net/rom support didn't work with a low PACLEN;
the mkiss module would truncate packets if you set the PACLEN below about 200 or so, e.g.:
Apr 19 14:00:51 radio kernel: [12985.747310] mkiss: ax1: truncating oversized transmit packet!
This didn't make any sense to me (if the packets are smaller why would they
be truncated?) so I started investigating.
I looked at the packets using ethereal, and found that many were just huge
compared to what I would expect.
A simple net/rom connection request packet had the request and then a bunch
of what appeared to be random data following it:
</quote>
Simon provided a patch that I slightly revised:
Not only we must not use skb_tailroom(), we also do
not want to count NR_NETWORK_LEN twice.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Co-Developed-by: Simon Kapadia <szymon@kapadia.pl>
Signed-off-by: Simon Kapadia <szymon@kapadia.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Simon Kapadia <szymon@kapadia.pl>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230524141456.1045467-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
skb_recv_datagram() has two parameters 'flags' and 'noblock' that are
merged inside skb_recv_datagram() by 'flags | (noblock ? MSG_DONTWAIT : 0)'
As 'flags' may contain MSG_DONTWAIT as value most callers split the 'flags'
into 'flags' and 'noblock' with finally obsolete bit operations like this:
skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &rc);
And this is not even done consistently with the 'flags' parameter.
This patch removes the obsolete and costly splitting into two parameters
and only performs bit operations when really needed on the caller side.
One missing conversion thankfully reported by kernel test robot. I missed
to enable kunit tests to build the mctp code.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This needs to copy an unsigned int from user space instead of a long to
avoid breaking user space with an API change.
I have updated all the integer overflow checks from ULONG to UINT as
well. This is a slight API change but I do not expect it to affect
anything in real life.
Fixes: 3087a6f36e ("netrom: fix copying in user data in nr_setsockopt")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This code used to copy in an unsigned long worth of data before
the sockptr_t conversion, so restore that.
Fixes: a7b75c5a8c ("net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In preparation for netdev->dev_addr being constant
make all relevant arguments in AX25 constant.
Modify callers as well (netrom, rose).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Use dev_addr_set() instead of writing directly to netdev->dev_addr
in various misc and old drivers.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 'if (dev)' statement already move into dev_{put , hold}, so remove
redundant if statements.
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 63346650c1 ("netrom: switch to sock timer API") switched to use
sock timer API. It replaces mod_timer() by sk_reset_timer(), and
del_timer() by sk_stop_timer().
Function sk_reset_timer() will increase the refcount of sock if it is
called on an inactive timer, hence, in case the timer expires, we need to
decrease the refcount ourselves in the handler, otherwise, the sock
refcount will be unbalanced and the sock will never be freed.
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi <phind.uet@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+10f1194569953b72f1ae@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 63346650c1 ("netrom: switch to sock timer API")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, fix multiple
warnings by explicitly adding multiple break statements instead of
letting the code fall through to the next case.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/115
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Variable ns is set to 'skb->data[17]' but this value is never read as
it is overwritten or not used later on, hence it is a redundant
assignment and can be removed.
Cleans up the following clang-analyzer warning:
net/netrom/nr_in.c:156:2: warning: Value stored to 'ns' is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores].
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1619603885-115604-1-git-send-email-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Rework the remaining setsockopt code to pass a sockptr_t instead of a
plain user pointer. This removes the last remaining set_fs(KERNEL_DS)
outside of architecture specific code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> [ieee802154]
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The dynamic key update for addr_list_lock still causes troubles,
for example the following race condition still exists:
CPU 0: CPU 1:
(RCU read lock) (RTNL lock)
dev_mc_seq_show() netdev_update_lockdep_key()
-> lockdep_unregister_key()
-> netif_addr_lock_bh()
because lockdep doesn't provide an API to update it atomically.
Therefore, we have to move it back to static keys and use subclass
for nest locking like before.
In commit 1a33e10e4a ("net: partially revert dynamic lockdep key
changes"), I already reverted most parts of commit ab92d68fc2
("net: core: add generic lockdep keys").
This patch reverts the rest and also part of commit f3b0a18bb6
("net: remove unnecessary variables and callback"). After this
patch, addr_list_lock changes back to using static keys and
subclasses to satisfy lockdep. Thanks to dev->lower_level, we do
not have to change back to ->ndo_get_lock_subclass().
And hopefully this reduces some syzbot lockdep noises too.
Reported-by: syzbot+f3a0e80c34b3fc28ac5e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch reverts the folowing commits:
commit 064ff66e2b
"bonding: add missing netdev_update_lockdep_key()"
commit 53d374979e
"net: avoid updating qdisc_xmit_lock_key in netdev_update_lockdep_key()"
commit 1f26c0d3d2
"net: fix kernel-doc warning in <linux/netdevice.h>"
commit ab92d68fc2
"net: core: add generic lockdep keys"
but keeps the addr_list_lock_key because we still lock
addr_list_lock nestedly on stack devices, unlikely xmit_lock
this is safe because we don't take addr_list_lock on any fast
path.
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+aaa6fa4949cc5d9b7b25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nr_add_node() invokes nr_neigh_get_dev(), which returns a local
reference of the nr_neigh object to "nr_neigh" with increased refcnt.
When nr_add_node() returns, "nr_neigh" becomes invalid, so the refcount
should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.
The issue happens in one normal path of nr_add_node(), which forgets to
decrease the refcnt increased by nr_neigh_get_dev() and causes a refcnt
leak. It should decrease the refcnt before the function returns like
other normal paths do.
Fix this issue by calling nr_neigh_put() before the nr_add_node()
returns.
Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_neigh_stop()
warning: context imbalance in nr_neigh_stop() - unexpected unlock
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_neigh_stop()
Add the missing __releases(&nr_neigh_list_lock) annotation
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_neigh_start()
warning: context imbalance in nr_neigh_start() - wrong count at exit
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_neigh_start()
Add the missing __acquires(&nr_neigh_list_lock) annotation
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_node_stop()
warning: context imbalance in nr_node_stop() - wrong count at exit
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_node_stop()
Add the missing __releases(&nr_node_list_lock) annotation
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_node_start()
warning: context imbalance in nr_node_start() - wrong count at exit
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_node_start()
Add the missing __acquires(&nr_node_list_lock) annotation
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_info_stop()
warning: context imbalance in nr_info_stop() - unexpected unlock
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_info_stop()
Add the missing __releases(&nr_list_lock)
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sparse reports a warning at nr_info_start()
warning: context imbalance in nr_info_start() - wrong count at exit
The root cause is the missing annotation at nr_info_start()
Add the missing __acquires(&nr_list_lock)
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some interface types could be nested.
(VLAN, BONDING, TEAM, MACSEC, MACVLAN, IPVLAN, VIRT_WIFI, VXLAN, etc..)
These interface types should set lockdep class because, without lockdep
class key, lockdep always warn about unexisting circular locking.
In the current code, these interfaces have their own lockdep class keys and
these manage itself. So that there are so many duplicate code around the
/driver/net and /net/.
This patch adds new generic lockdep keys and some helper functions for it.
This patch does below changes.
a) Add lockdep class keys in struct net_device
- qdisc_running, xmit, addr_list, qdisc_busylock
- these keys are used as dynamic lockdep key.
b) When net_device is being allocated, lockdep keys are registered.
- alloc_netdev_mqs()
c) When net_device is being free'd llockdep keys are unregistered.
- free_netdev()
d) Add generic lockdep key helper function
- netdev_register_lockdep_key()
- netdev_unregister_lockdep_key()
- netdev_update_lockdep_key()
e) Remove unnecessary generic lockdep macro and functions
f) Remove unnecessary lockdep code of each interfaces.
After this patch, each interface modules don't need to maintain
their lockdep keys.
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sock_efree() releases the sock refcnt, if we don't hold this refcnt
when setting skb->destructor to it, the refcnt would not be balanced.
This leads to several bug reports from syzbot.
I have checked other users of sock_efree(), all of them hold the
sock refcnt.
Fixes: c8c8218ec5 ("netrom: fix a memory leak in nr_rx_frame()")
Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+622bdabb128acc33427d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+6eaef7158b19e3fec3a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+9399c158fcc09b21d0d2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: <syzbot+a34e5f3d0300163f0c87@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the skb is associated with a new sock, just assigning
it to skb->sk is not sufficient, we have to set its destructor
to free the sock properly too.
Reported-by: syzbot+d6636a36d3c34bd88938@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The SIOCGSTAMP/SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl commands are implemented by many
socket protocol handlers, and all of those end up calling the same
sock_get_timestamp()/sock_get_timestampns() helper functions, which
results in a lot of duplicate code.
With the introduction of 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures, this
gets worse, as we then need four different ioctl commands in each
socket protocol implementation.
To simplify that, let's add a new .gettstamp() operation in
struct proto_ops, and move ioctl implementation into the common
sock_ioctl()/compat_sock_ioctl_trans() functions that these all go
through.
We can reuse the sock_get_timestamp() implementation, but generalize
it so it can deal with both native and compat mode, as well as
timeval and timespec structures.
Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8P3a038aDQQotzua_QtKGhq8O9n+rdiz2=WDCp82ys8eUT+A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sk_reset_timer() and sk_stop_timer() properly handle
sock refcnt for timer function. Switching to them
could fix a refcounting bug reported by syzbot.
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+defa700d16f1bd1b9a05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nr_find_socket(), nr_find_peer() and nr_find_listener() lock the
sock after finding it in the global list. However, the call path
requires BH disabled for the sock lock consistently.
Actually the locking is unnecessary at this point, we can just hold
the sock refcnt to make sure it is not gone after we unlock the global
list, and lock it later only when needed.
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+f621cda8b7e598908efa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.
Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections.
But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.
[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ]
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Gavrilov Ilia