[SCTP]: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock.

This patch fixes a deadlock situation in the receive path by allowing
temporary spillover of the receive buffer.

- If the chunk we receive has a tsn that immediately follows the ctsn,
  accept it even if we run out of receive buffer space and renege data with
  higher TSNs.
- Once we accept one chunk in a packet, accept all the remaining chunks
  even if we run out of receive buffer space.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Mark Butler <butlerm@middle.net>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index eba99f3..7f4fea1 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -712,6 +712,7 @@ struct sctp_chunk {
        __u8 tsn_gap_acked;     /* Is this chunk acked by a GAP ACK? */
        __s8 fast_retransmit;    /* Is this chunk fast retransmitted? */
        __u8 tsn_missing_report; /* Data chunk missing counter. */
+       __u8 data_accepted;     /* At least 1 chunk in this packet accepted */
 };
 
 void sctp_chunk_hold(struct sctp_chunk *);

diff --git a/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index 297b895..cf0c767 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sctp/inqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ struct sctp_chunk *sctp_inq_pop(struct sctp_inq *queue)
                /* This is the first chunk in the packet.  */
                chunk->singleton = 1;
                ch = (sctp_chunkhdr_t *) chunk->skb->data;
+               chunk->data_accepted = 0;
        }
 
         chunk->chunk_hdr = ch;

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index 2b9a832..f5d131f 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -5151,7 +5151,9 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
        int tmp;
        __u32 tsn;
        int account_value;
+       struct sctp_tsnmap *map = (struct sctp_tsnmap *)&asoc->peer.tsn_map;
        struct sock *sk = asoc->base.sk;
+       int rcvbuf_over = 0;
 
        data_hdr = chunk->subh.data_hdr = (sctp_datahdr_t *)chunk->skb->data;
        skb_pull(chunk->skb, sizeof(sctp_datahdr_t));
@@ -5162,10 +5164,16 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
        /* ASSERT:  Now skb->data is really the user data.  */
 
        /*
-        * if we are established, and we have used up our receive
-        * buffer memory, drop the frame
-        */
-       if (asoc->state == SCTP_STATE_ESTABLISHED) {
+        * If we are established, and we have used up our receive buffer
+        * memory, think about droping the frame.
+        * Note that we have an opportunity to improve performance here.
+        * If we accept one chunk from an skbuff, we have to keep all the
+        * memory of that skbuff around until the chunk is read into user
+        * space. Therefore, once we accept 1 chunk we may as well accept all
+        * remaining chunks in the skbuff. The data_accepted flag helps us do
+        * that.
+        */
+       if ((asoc->state == SCTP_STATE_ESTABLISHED) && (!chunk->data_accepted)) {
                /*
                 * If the receive buffer policy is 1, then each
                 * association can allocate up to sk_rcvbuf bytes
@@ -5176,9 +5184,25 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
                        account_value = atomic_read(&asoc->rmem_alloc);
                else
                        account_value = atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc);
-
-               if (account_value > sk->sk_rcvbuf)
-                       return SCTP_IERROR_IGNORE_TSN;
+               if (account_value > sk->sk_rcvbuf) {
+                       /*
+                        * We need to make forward progress, even when we are
+                        * under memory pressure, so we always allow the
+                        * next tsn after the ctsn ack point to be accepted.
+                        * This lets us avoid deadlocks in which we have to
+                        * drop frames that would otherwise let us drain the
+                        * receive queue.
+                        */
+                       if ((sctp_tsnmap_get_ctsn(map) + 1) != tsn)
+                               return SCTP_IERROR_IGNORE_TSN;
+
+                       /*
+                        * We're going to accept the frame but we should renege
+                        * to make space for it. This will send us down that
+                        * path later in this function.
+                        */
+                       rcvbuf_over = 1;
+               }
        }
 
        /* Process ECN based congestion.
@@ -5226,6 +5250,7 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
        datalen -= sizeof(sctp_data_chunk_t);
 
        deliver = SCTP_CMD_CHUNK_ULP;
+       chunk->data_accepted = 1;
 
        /* Think about partial delivery. */
        if ((datalen >= asoc->rwnd) && (!asoc->ulpq.pd_mode)) {
@@ -5242,7 +5267,8 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
         * large spill over.
         */
        if (!asoc->rwnd || asoc->rwnd_over ||
-           (datalen > asoc->rwnd + asoc->frag_point)) {
+           (datalen > asoc->rwnd + asoc->frag_point) ||
+           rcvbuf_over) {
 
                /* If this is the next TSN, consider reneging to make
                 * room.   Note: Playing nice with a confused sender.  A
@@ -5250,8 +5276,8 @@ static int sctp_eat_data(const struct sctp_association *asoc,
                 * space and in the future we may want to detect and
                 * do more drastic reneging.
                 */
-               if (sctp_tsnmap_has_gap(&asoc->peer.tsn_map) &&
-                   (sctp_tsnmap_get_ctsn(&asoc->peer.tsn_map) + 1) == tsn) {
+               if (sctp_tsnmap_has_gap(map) &&
+                   (sctp_tsnmap_get_ctsn(map) + 1) == tsn) {
                        SCTP_DEBUG_PRINTK("Reneging for tsn:%u\n", tsn);
                        deliver = SCTP_CMD_RENEGE;
                } else {