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  1. 17 2月, 2018 9 次提交
  3. 17 1月, 2018 1 次提交
    • J
      tipc: fix race condition at topology server receive · e88f2be8
      由 Jon Maloy 提交于 
      We have identified a race condition during reception of socket
events and messages in the topology server.

- The function tipc_close_conn() is releasing the corresponding
  struct tipc_subscriber instance without considering that there
  may still be items in the receive work queue. When those are
  scheduled, in the function tipc_receive_from_work(), they are
  using the subscriber pointer stored in struct tipc_conn, without
  first checking if this is valid or not. This will sometimes
  lead to crashes, as the next call of tipc_conn_recvmsg() will
  access the now deleted item.
  We fix this by making the usage of this pointer conditional on
  whether the connection is active or not. I.e., we check the condition
  test_bit(CF_CONNECTED) before making the call tipc_conn_recvmsg().

- Since the two functions may be running on different cores, the
  condition test described above is not enough. tipc_close_conn()
  may come in between and delete the subscriber item after the condition
  test is done, but before tipc_conn_recv_msg() is finished. This
  happens less frequently than the problem described above, but leads
  to the same symptoms.

  We fix this by using the existing sk_callback_lock for mutual
  exclusion in the two functions. In addition, we have to move
  a call to tipc_conn_terminate() outside the mentioned lock to
  avoid deadlock.
Acked-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e88f2be8
  5. 10 1月, 2018 2 次提交
    • J
      tipc: improve groupcast scope handling · 232d07b7
      由 Jon Maloy 提交于 
      When a member joins a group, it also indicates a binding scope. This
makes it possible to create both node local groups, invisible to other
nodes, as well as cluster global groups, visible everywhere.

In order to avoid that different members end up having permanently
differing views of group size and memberhip, we must inhibit locally
and globally bound members from joining the same group.

We do this by using the binding scope as an additional separator between
groups. I.e., a member must ignore all membership events from sockets
using a different scope than itself, and all lookups for message
destinations must require an exact match between the message's lookup
scope and the potential target's binding scope.

Apart from making it possible to create local groups using the same
identity on different nodes, a side effect of this is that it now also
becomes possible to create a cluster global group with the same identity
across the same nodes, without interfering with the local groups.
Acked-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      232d07b7
    • J
      tipc: add option to suppress PUBLISH events for pre-existing publications · 8348500f
      由 Jon Maloy 提交于 
      Currently, when a user is subscribing for binding table publications,
he will receive a PUBLISH event for all already existing matching items
in the binding table.

However, a group socket making a subscriptions doesn't need this initial
status update from the binding table, because it has already scanned it
during the join operation. Worse, the multiplicatory effect of issuing
mutual events for dozens or hundreds group members within a short time
frame put a heavy load on the topology server, with the end result that
scale out operations on a big group tend to take much longer than needed.

We now add a new filter option, TIPC_SUB_NO_STATUS, for topology server
subscriptions, so that this initial avalanche of events is suppressed.
This change, along with the previous commit, significantly improves the
range and speed of group scale out operations.

We keep the new option internal for the tipc driver, at least for now.
Acked-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8348500f
  7. 06 12月, 2017 2 次提交
    • J
      tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock() · a7d5f107
      由 Jon Maloy 提交于 
      When the function tipc_accept_from_sock() fails to create an instance of
struct tipc_subscriber it omits to free the already created instance of
struct tipc_conn instance before it returns.

We fix that with this commit.
Reported-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a7d5f107
    • C
      tipc: fix a null pointer deref on error path · 672ecbe1
      由 Cong Wang 提交于 
      In tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr() when s->tipc_conn_new() fails
we call tipc_close_conn() to clean up, but in this case
calling conn_put() is just enough.

This fixes the folllowing crash:

 kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
 Dumping ftrace buffer:
    (ftrace buffer empty)
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 3085 Comm: syzkaller064164 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc1+ #137
 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
 task: 00000000c24413a5 task.stack: 000000005e8160b5
 RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xd55/0x47f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3378
 RSP: 0018:ffff8801cb5474a8 EFLAGS: 00010002
 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff85ecb400
 RBP: ffff8801cb547830 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff87489d60 R12: ffff8801cd2980c0
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000020
 FS:  00000000014ee880(0000) GS:ffff8801db400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007ffee2426e40 CR3: 00000001cb85a000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  lock_acquire+0x1d5/0x580 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4004
  __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:135 [inline]
  _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x31/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:175
  spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:320 [inline]
  tipc_subscrb_subscrp_delete+0x8f/0x470 net/tipc/subscr.c:201
  tipc_subscrb_delete net/tipc/subscr.c:238 [inline]
  tipc_subscrb_release_cb+0x17/0x30 net/tipc/subscr.c:316
  tipc_close_conn+0x171/0x270 net/tipc/server.c:204
  tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr+0x724/0x810 net/tipc/server.c:514
  tipc_group_create+0x702/0x9c0 net/tipc/group.c:184
  tipc_sk_join net/tipc/socket.c:2747 [inline]
  tipc_setsockopt+0x249/0xc10 net/tipc/socket.c:2861
  SYSC_setsockopt net/socket.c:1851 [inline]
  SyS_setsockopt+0x189/0x360 net/socket.c:1830
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

Fixes: 14c04493 ("tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver")
Reported-by: Nsyzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      672ecbe1
  9. 03 12月, 2017 1 次提交
  11. 20 10月, 2017 1 次提交
  13. 13 10月, 2017 1 次提交
  15. 25 1月, 2017 4 次提交
  17. 27 6月, 2016 1 次提交
  19. 20 5月, 2016 1 次提交
  21. 15 4月, 2016 1 次提交
    • P
      tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug · 333f7962
      由 Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 提交于 
      Until now, the requests sent to topology server are queued
to a workqueue by the generic server framework.
These messages are processed by worker threads and trigger the
registered callbacks.
To reduce latency on uniprocessor systems, explicit rescheduling
is performed using cond_resched() after MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT(25)
messages.

This implementation on SMP systems leads to an subscriber refcnt
error as described below:
When a worker thread yields by calling cond_resched() in a SMP
system, a new worker is created on another CPU to process the
pending workitem. Sometimes the sleeping thread wakes up before
the new thread finishes execution.
This breaks the assumption on ordering and being single threaded.
The fault is more frequent when MAX_RECV_MSG_COUNT is lowered.

If the first thread was processing subscription create and the
second thread processing close(), the close request will free
the subscriber and the create request oops as follows:

[31.224137] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 266 at include/linux/kref.h:46 tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380         [tipc]
[31.228143] CPU: 2 PID: 266 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 4.5.0+ #97
[31.228377] Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_recv_work [tipc]
[...]
[31.228377] Call Trace:
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff812fbb6b>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x72
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff8105a311>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff8105a3fd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa0098067>] tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb+0x317/0x380 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa00a4984>] tipc_receive_from_sock+0xd4/0x130 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffffa00a439b>] tipc_recv_work+0x2b/0x50 [tipc]
[31.228377]  [<ffffffff81071925>] process_one_work+0x145/0x3d0
[31.246554] ---[ end trace c3882c9baa05a4fd ]---
[31.248327] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#2, kworker/u8:1/266
[31.249119] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000428
[31.249323] IP: [<ffffffff81099d0c>] spin_dump+0x5c/0xe0
[31.249323] PGD 0
[31.249323] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this commit, we
- rename tipc_conn_shutdown() to tipc_conn_release().
- move connection release callback execution from tipc_close_conn()
  to a new function tipc_sock_release(), which is executed before
  we free the connection.
Thus we release the subscriber during connection release procedure
rather than connection shutdown procedure.
Signed-off-by: NParthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      333f7962
  23. 06 2月, 2016 1 次提交
  25. 15 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  27. 05 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  29. 23 4月, 2015 1 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: fix topology server broken issue · def81f69
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      When a new topology server is launched in a new namespace, its
listening socket is inserted into the "init ns" namespace's socket
hash table rather than the one owned by the new namespace. Although
the socket's namespace is forcedly changed to the new namespace later,
the socket is still stored in the socket hash table of "init ns"
namespace. When a client created in the new namespace connects
its own topology server, the connection is failed as its server's
socket could not be found from its own namespace's socket table.

If __sock_create() instead of original sock_create_kern() is used
to create the server's socket through specifying an expected namesapce,
the socket will be inserted into the specified namespace's socket
table, thereby avoiding to the topology server broken issue.

Fixes: 76100a8a ("tipc: fix netns refcnt leak")
Reported-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      def81f69
  31. 18 3月, 2015 2 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: withdraw tipc topology server name when namespace is deleted · 2b9bb7f3
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      The TIPC topology server is a per namespace service associated with the
tipc name {1, 1}. When a namespace is deleted, that name must be withdrawn
before we call sk_release_kernel because the kernel socket release is
done in init_net and trying to withdraw a TIPC name published in another
namespace will fail with an error as:

[  170.093264] Unable to remove local publication
[  170.093264] (type=1, lower=1, ref=2184244004, key=2184244005)

We fix this by breaking the association between the topology server name
and socket before calling sk_release_kernel.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2b9bb7f3
    • Y
      tipc: fix netns refcnt leak · 76100a8a
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      When the TIPC module is loaded, we launch a topology server in kernel
space, which in its turn is creating TIPC sockets for communication
with topology server users. Because both the socket's creator and
provider reside in the same module, it is necessary that the TIPC
module's reference count remains zero after the server is started and
the socket created; otherwise it becomes impossible to perform "rmmod"
even on an idle module.

Currently, we achieve this by defining a separate "tipc_proto_kern"
protocol struct, that is used only for kernel space socket allocations.
This structure has the "owner" field set to NULL, which restricts the
module reference count from being be bumped when sk_alloc() for local
sockets is called. Furthermore, we have defined three kernel-specific
functions, tipc_sock_create_local(), tipc_sock_release_local() and
tipc_sock_accept_local(), to avoid the module counter being modified
when module local sockets are created or deleted. This has worked well
until we introduced name space support.

However, after name space support was introduced, we have observed that
a reference count leak occurs, because the netns counter is not
decremented in tipc_sock_delete_local().

This commit remedies this problem. But instead of just modifying
tipc_sock_delete_local(), we eliminate the whole parallel socket
handling infrastructure, and start using the regular sk_create_kern(),
kernel_accept() and sk_release_kernel() calls. Since those functions
manipulate the module counter, we must now compensate for that by
explicitly decrementing the counter after module local sockets are
created, and increment it just before calling sk_release_kernel().

Fixes: a62fbcce ("tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace")
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericson.com>
Reviewed-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reported-by: NCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Tested-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      76100a8a
  33. 13 1月, 2015 3 次提交
  35. 12 4月, 2014 1 次提交
    • D
      net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. · 676d2369
      由 David S. Miller 提交于 
      Several spots in the kernel perform a sequence like:

	skb_queue_tail(&sk->s_receive_queue, skb);
	sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);

But at the moment we place the SKB onto the socket receive queue it
can be consumed and freed up.  So this skb->len access is potentially
to freed up memory.

Furthermore, the skb->len can be modified by the consumer so it is
possible that the value isn't accurate.

And finally, no actual implementation of this callback actually uses
the length argument.  And since nobody actually cared about it's
value, lots of call sites pass arbitrary values in such as '0' and
even '1'.

So just remove the length argument from the callback, that way there
is no confusion whatsoever and all of these use-after-free cases get
fixed as a side effect.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet and his suggestion to audit this
issue tree-wide.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      676d2369
  37. 07 3月, 2014 2 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: fix connection refcount leak · 4652edb7
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      When tipc_conn_sendmsg() calls tipc_conn_lookup() to query a
connection instance, its reference count value is increased if
it's found. But subsequently if it's found that the connection is
closed, the work of sending message is not queued into its server
send workqueue, and the connection reference count is not decreased.
This will cause a reference count leak. To reproduce this problem,
an application would need to open and closes topology server
connections with high intensity.

We fix this by immediately decrementing the connection reference
count if a send fails due to the connection being closed.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      4652edb7
    • Y
      tipc: allow connection shutdown callback to be invoked in advance · 6d4ebeb4
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      Currently connection shutdown callback function is called when
connection instance is released in tipc_conn_kref_release(), and
receiving packets and sending packets are running in different
threads. Even if connection is closed by the thread of receiving
packets, its shutdown callback may not be called immediately as
the connection reference count is non-zero at that moment. So,
although the connection is shut down by the thread of receiving
packets, the thread of sending packets doesn't know it. Before
its shutdown callback is invoked to tell the sending thread its
connection has been closed, the sending thread may deliver
messages by tipc_conn_sendmsg(), this is why the following error
information appears:

"Sending subscription event failed, no memory"

To eliminate it, allow connection shutdown callback function to
be called before connection id is removed in tipc_close_conn(),
which makes the sending thread know the truth in time that its
socket is closed so that it doesn't send message to it. We also
remove the "Sending XXX failed..." error reporting for topology
and config services.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6d4ebeb4
  39. 22 2月, 2014 1 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: remove all enabled flags from all tipc components · 9fe7ed47
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      When tipc module is inserted, many tipc components are initialized
one by one. During the initialization period, if one of them is
failed, tipc_core_stop() will be called to stop all components
whatever corresponding components are created or not. To avoid to
release uncreated ones, relevant components have to add necessary
enabled flags indicating whether they are created or not.

But in the initialization stage, if one component is unsuccessfully
created, we will just destroy successfully created components before
the failed component instead of all components. All enabled flags
defined in components, in turn, become redundant. Additionally it's
also unnecessary to identify whether table.types is NULL in
tipc_nametbl_stop() because name stable has been definitely created
successfully when tipc_nametbl_stop() is called.

Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      9fe7ed47
  41. 15 1月, 2014 1 次提交
  43. 02 8月, 2013 1 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: fix oops when creating server socket fails · c756891a
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      When creation of TIPC internal server socket fails,
we get an oops with the following dump:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
IP: [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
PGD 13719067 PUD 12008067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: tipc(+)
CPU: 4 PID: 4340 Comm: insmod Not tainted 3.10.0+ #1
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
task: ffff880014360000 ti: ffff88001374c000 task.ti: ffff88001374c000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0011f49>]  [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
RSP: 0018:ffff88001374dc98  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880012ac09d8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880014360000
RBP: ffff88001374dcb8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffa0016fa0
R13: ffffffffa0017010 R14: ffffffffa0017010 R15: ffff880012ac09d8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880016600000(0063) knlGS:00000000f76668d0
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000012227000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Stack:
ffff88001374dcb8 ffffffffa0016fa0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
ffff88001374dcf8 ffffffffa0012922 ffff88001374dce8 00000000ffffffea
ffffffffa0017100 0000000000000000 ffff8800134241a8 ffffffffa0017150
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0012922>] tipc_server_stop+0xa2/0x1b0 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa0009995>] tipc_subscr_stop+0x15/0x20 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa00130f5>] tipc_core_stop+0x1d/0x33 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa001f0d4>] tipc_init+0xd4/0xf8 [tipc]
[<ffffffffa001f000>] ? 0xffffffffa001efff
[<ffffffff8100023f>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x150
[<ffffffff81082f4d>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x7d/0xd0
[<ffffffff810cc58a>] load_module+0x11aa/0x19c0
[<ffffffff810c8d60>] ? show_initstate+0x50/0x50
[<ffffffff8190311c>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[<ffffffff810cce79>] SyS_init_module+0xd9/0x110
[<ffffffff8190dc65>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1f
Code: 6c 24 70 4c 89 ef e8 b7 04 8f e1 8b 73 04 4c 89 e7 e8 7c 9e 32 e1 41 83 ac 24
b8 00 00 00 01 4c 89 ef e8 eb 0a 8f e1 48 8b 43 08 <4c> 8b 68 20 4d 8d a5 48 03 00
00 4c 89 e7 e8 04 05 8f e1 4c 89
RIP  [<ffffffffa0011f49>] tipc_close_conn+0x59/0xb0 [tipc]
RSP <ffff88001374dc98>
CR2: 0000000000000020
---[ end trace b02321f40e4269a3 ]---

We have the following call chain:

tipc_core_start()
    ret = tipc_subscr_start()
        ret = tipc_server_start(){
                  server->enabled = 1;
                  ret = tipc_open_listening_sock()
              }

I.e., the server->enabled flag is unconditionally set to 1, whatever
the return value of tipc_open_listening_sock().

This causes a crash when tipc_core_start() tries to clean up
resources after a failed initialization:

    if (ret == failed)
        tipc_subscr_stop()
            tipc_server_stop(){
                if (server->enabled)
                    tipc_close_conn(){
                        NULL reference of con->sock-sk
                        OOPS!
                }
            }

To avoid this, tipc_server_start() should only set server->enabled
to 1 in case of a succesful socket creation. In case of failure, it
should release all allocated resources before returning.

Problem introduced in commit c5fa7b3c
("tipc: introduce new TIPC server infrastructure") in v3.11-rc1.
Note that it won't be seen often; it takes a module load under memory
constrained conditions in order to trigger the failure condition.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c756891a
  45. 18 6月, 2013 1 次提交
    • Y
      tipc: introduce new TIPC server infrastructure · c5fa7b3c
      由 Ying Xue 提交于 
      TIPC has two internal servers, one providing a subscription
service for topology events, and another providing the
configuration interface. These servers have previously been running
in BH context, accessing the TIPC-port (aka native) API directly.
Apart from these servers, even the TIPC socket implementation is
partially built on this API.

As this API may simultaneously be called via different paths and in
different contexts, a complex and costly lock policiy is required
in order to protect TIPC internal resources.

To eliminate the need for this complex lock policiy, we introduce
a new, generic service API that uses kernel sockets for message
passing instead of the native API. Once the toplogy and configuration
servers are converted to use this new service, all code pertaining
to the native API can be removed. This entails a significant
reduction in code amount and complexity, and opens up for a complete
rework of the locking policy in TIPC.

The new service also solves another problem:

As the current topology server works in BH context, it cannot easily
be blocked when sending of events fails due to congestion. In such
cases events may have to be silently dropped, something that is
unacceptable. Therefore, the new service keeps a dedicated outbound
queue receiving messages from BH context. Once messages are
inserted into this queue, we will immediately schedule a work from a
special workqueue. This way, messages/events from the topology server
are in reality sent in process context, and the server can block
if necessary.

Analogously, there is a new workqueue for receiving messages. Once a
notification about an arriving message is received in BH context, we
schedule a work from the receive workqueue to do the job of
receiving the message in process context.

As both sending and receive messages are now finished in processes,
subscribed events cannot be dropped any more.

As of this commit, this new server infrastructure is built, but
not actually yet called by the existing TIPC code, but since the
conversion changes required in order to use it are significant,
the addition is kept here as a separate commit.
Signed-off-by: NYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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