On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Gao Feng <gfree.w...@vip.163.com> wrote: > > Sorry, I don't get you clearly. Why the sock_hold() isn't helpful?
I already told you, the dereference happends before sock_hold(). sock = rcu_dereference(callid_sock[call_id]); if (sock) { opt = &sock->proto.pptp; if (opt->dst_addr.sin_addr.s_addr != s_addr) <=== HERE sock = NULL; else sock_hold(sk_pppox(sock)); } If we don't wait for readers properly, sock could be freed at the same time when deference it. > The pptp_release invokes synchronize_rcu after del_chan, it could make sure > the others has increased the sock refcnt if necessary > and the lookup is over. > There is no one could get the sock after synchronize_rcu in pptp_release. If this were true, then this code in pptp_sock_destruct() would be unneeded: if (!(sk->sk_state & PPPOX_DEAD)) { del_chan(pppox_sk(sk)); pppox_unbind_sock(sk); } > > > But I think about another problem. > It seems the pptp_sock_destruct should not invoke del_chan and > pppox_unbind_sock. > Because when the sock refcnt is 0, the pptp_release must have be invoked > already. > I don't know. Looks like sock_orphan() is only called in pptp_release(), but I am not sure if there is a case we call sock destructor before release. Also note, this socket is very special, it doesn't support poll(), sendmsg() or recvmsg()..