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dlm: fix add msg handle in send_queue ordered

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dlm: fix add msg handle in send_queue ordered In a benchmark scenario triggering a lot of requests that triggers a lot of DLM messages on the network it can be that the mh->seq is not ordered according the oldest seq number. This ordering is required by dlm_receive_ack as "before(mh->seq, seq)" will stop to check for older sequence numbers that are ordered in the tail of "node->send_queue". The side effects of not having it correct ordered regarding "before(mh->seq, seq)" are refcounting issues and use-after free. I only was able to reproduce this issue in a experimental DLM branch and a user space DLM benchmark that uses io_uring. After changing this I don't experienced any refcounting with the sending buffer issues anymore.

Affected products

Linux
  • =<6.6.*
  • =<*
  • <ae9e534e502a0f48c12baf83608c5de0ff0eab11
  • <d2248cb70c070f8f04762872772e155b59016f17
  • <4d45250b1d22960f86d83245be188b16e456218b
  • <6369619f1b665f12d8c99cc6ff733c64eb08b22e
  • <712714f818d83373847874ab0f8e426be79296cf
  • ==5.14
  • =<6.12.*
  • =<6.18.*
  • =<7.1.*
  • <5.14