lwn.git/ipc, branch v3.12-rc3

ipc: fix race with LSMs

2013-09-24T16:36:53+00:00

Currently, IPC mechanisms do security and auditing related checks under RCU. However, since security modules can free the security structure, for example, through selinux_[sem,msg_queue,shm]_free_security(), we can race if the structure is freed before other tasks are done with it, creating a use-after-free condition. Manfred illustrates this nicely, for instance with shared mem and selinux: -> do_shmat calls rcu_read_lock() -> do_shmat calls shm_object_check(). Checks that the object is still valid - but doesn't acquire any locks. Then it returns. -> do_shmat calls security_shm_shmat (e.g. selinux_shm_shmat) -> selinux_shm_shmat calls ipc_has_perm() -> ipc_has_perm accesses ipc_perms->security shm_close() -> shm_close acquires rw_mutex & shm_lock -> shm_close calls shm_destroy -> shm_destroy calls security_shm_free (e.g. selinux_shm_free_security) -> selinux_shm_free_security calls ipc_free_security(&shp->shm_perm) -> ipc_free_security calls kfree(ipc_perms->security) This patch delays the freeing of the security structures after all RCU readers are done. Furthermore it aligns the security life cycle with that of the rest of IPC - freeing them based on the reference counter. For situations where we need not free security, the current behavior is kept. Linus states: "... the old behavior was suspect for another reason too: having the security blob go away from under a user sounds like it could cause various other problems anyway, so I think the old code was at least _prone_ to bugs even if it didn't have catastrophic behavior." I have tested this patch with IPC testcases from LTP on both my quad-core laptop and on a 64 core NUMA server. In both cases selinux is enabled, and tests pass for both voluntary and forced preemption models. While the mentioned races are theoretical (at least no one as reported them), I wanted to make sure that this new logic doesn't break anything we weren't aware of. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: drop ipc_lock_check

2013-09-11T22:59:45+00:00

No remaining users, we now use ipc_obtain_object_check(). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc, shm: drop shm_lock_check

2013-09-11T22:59:44+00:00

This function was replaced by a the lockless shm_obtain_object_check(), and no longer has any users. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: drop ipc_lock_by_ptr

2013-09-11T22:59:44+00:00

After previous cleanups and optimizations, this function is no longer heavily used and we don't have a good reason to keep it. Update the few remaining callers and get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)

2013-09-11T22:59:44+00:00

When !CONFIG_MMU there's a chance we can derefence a NULL pointer when the VM area isn't found - check the return value of find_vma(). Also, remove the redundant -EINVAL return: retval is set to the proper return code and *only* changed to 0, when we actually unmap the segments. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: document general ipc locking scheme

2013-09-11T22:59:43+00:00

As suggested by Andrew, add a generic initial locking scheme used throughout all sysv ipc mechanisms. Documenting the ids rwsem, how rcu can be enough to do the initial checks and when to actually acquire the kern_ipc_perm.lock spinlock. I found that adding it to util.c was generic enough. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock

2013-09-11T22:59:42+00:00

There is only one user left, drop this function and just call ipc_unlock_object() and rcu_read_unlock(). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

2013-09-11T22:59:42+00:00

Since in some situations the lock can be shared for readers, we shouldn't be calling it a mutex, rename it to rwsem. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat

2013-09-11T22:59:42+00:00

Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing the initial permission and security checks. [sasha.levin@oracle.com: dont leave do_shmat with rcu lock held] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta

2013-09-11T22:59:42+00:00

Clean up some of the messy do_shmat() spaghetti code, getting rid of out_free and out_put_dentry labels. This makes shortening the critical region of this function in the next patch a little easier to do and read. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds