[PATCH] eal: fix file descriptor leakage with unhandled messages
fengchengwen
fengchengwen at huawei.com
Mon Jul 3 11:28:34 CEST 2023
Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
On 2023/6/28 20:19, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote:
> The sendmsg()/recvmsg() API is used to establish communication between
> the DPDK processes. The API supposes inter-process file descriptors
> sending and conversion, the recipient sees the resulting descriptors
> in the received message - the operating systems creates ones in the
> right context.
>
> The message receiving is performed by EAL in the dedicated thread
> and it might happen the message is received by EAL and not handled
> by addressed PMD or application due to some reasons (timeouts, race
> condition, etc). EAL just dropped unhandled messages causing the
> file descriptor leakage if these ones were presented in the message.
>
> The patch closes the descriptors (if any) in unhandled messages.
>
> Fixes: 783b6e54971 ("eal: add synchronous multi-process communication")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> ---
> lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> index 1fc1d6c53b..9676dd73c5 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> @@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ read_msg(int fd, struct mp_msg_internal *m, struct sockaddr_un *s)
> return msglen;
> }
>
> +static void
> +cleanup_msg_fds(const struct rte_mp_msg *msg)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < msg->num_fds; i++)
> + close(msg->fds[i]);
> +}
> +
> static void
> process_msg(struct mp_msg_internal *m, struct sockaddr_un *s)
> {
> @@ -349,8 +358,10 @@ process_msg(struct mp_msg_internal *m, struct sockaddr_un *s)
> else if (pending_req->type == REQUEST_TYPE_ASYNC)
> req = async_reply_handle_thread_unsafe(
> pending_req);
> - } else
> + } else {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Drop mp reply: %s\n", msg->name);
> + cleanup_msg_fds(msg);
> + }
> pthread_mutex_unlock(&pending_requests.lock);
>
> if (req != NULL)
> @@ -380,6 +391,7 @@ process_msg(struct mp_msg_internal *m, struct sockaddr_un *s)
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot find action: %s\n",
> msg->name);
> }
> + cleanup_msg_fds(msg);
> } else if (action(msg, s->sun_path) < 0) {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Fail to handle message: %s\n", msg->name);
> }
>
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