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author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> | 2015-06-30 14:58:45 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -0700 |
commit | f8b5918495be32807c4f878de959540eb63a9b9f (patch) | |
tree | 4f451f58daf8c894eaf4f3e9bac6d88b597c3881 /ipc | |
parent | 55b7ae50167efc9b1c4f8fb60a99478cd46a82f7 (diff) | |
download | lwn-f8b5918495be32807c4f878de959540eb63a9b9f.tar.gz lwn-f8b5918495be32807c4f878de959540eb63a9b9f.zip |
ipc,sysv: make return -EIDRM when racing with RMID consistent
The ipc_lock helper is used by all forms of sysv ipc to acquire the ipc
object's spinlock. Upon error (bogus identifier), we always return
-EINVAL, whether the problem be in the idr path or because we raced with a
task performing RMID. For the later, however, all ipc related manpages,
state the that for:
EIDRM <ID> points to a removed identifier.
And return:
EINVAL Invalid <ID> value, or unaligned, etc.
Which (EINVAL) should only return once the ipc resource is deleted. For
all types of ipc this is done immediately upon a RMID command. However,
shared memory behaves slightly different as it can merely mark a segment
for deletion, and delay the actual freeing until there are no more active
consumers. Per shmctl(IPC_RMID) manpage:
""
Mark the segment to be destroyed. The segment will only actually
be destroyed after the last process detaches it (i.e., when the
shm_nattch member of the associated structure shmid_ds is zero).
""
Unlike ipc_lock, paths that behave "correctly", at least per the manpage,
involve controlling the ipc resource via *ctl(), doing the exact same
validity check as ipc_lock after right acquiring the spinlock:
if (!ipc_valid_object()) {
err = -EIDRM;
goto out_unlock;
}
Thus make ipc_lock consistent with the rest of ipc code and return -EIDRM
in ipc_lock when !ipc_valid_object().
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r-- | ipc/util.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c index 3fdfabfdd9c3..b99038699fee 100644 --- a/ipc/util.c +++ b/ipc/util.c @@ -583,19 +583,22 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id) rcu_read_lock(); out = ipc_obtain_object_idr(ids, id); if (IS_ERR(out)) - goto err1; + goto err; spin_lock(&out->lock); - /* ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while ipc_lock - * was spinning: here verify that the structure is still valid + /* + * ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while ipc_lock() + * was spinning: here verify that the structure is still valid. + * Upon races with RMID, return -EIDRM, thus indicating that + * the ID points to a removed identifier. */ if (ipc_valid_object(out)) return out; spin_unlock(&out->lock); - out = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); -err1: + out = ERR_PTR(-EIDRM); +err: rcu_read_unlock(); return out; } |