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authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>2013-09-03 16:00:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-09-26 17:21:22 -0700
commitf33e422584bed14b9f194f6a7bf61db68dd95e12 (patch)
tree40caf2ed39c2d4581b6f8f4246675cf41b2ca519 /ipc
parent4e96b8f08b2b67effc19b28bad73deec6c62248a (diff)
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ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd().
commit bebcb928c820d0ee83aca4b192adc195e43e66a2 upstream. The check if the queue is full and adding current to the wait queue of pending msgsnd() operations (ss_add()) must be atomic. Otherwise: - the thread that performs msgsnd() finds a full queue and decides to sleep. - the thread that performs msgrcv() first reads all messages from the queue and then sleeps, because the queue is empty. - the msgrcv() calls do not perform any wakeups, because the msgsnd() task has not yet called ss_add(). - then the msgsnd()-thread first calls ss_add() and then sleeps. Net result: msgsnd() and msgrcv() both sleep forever. Observed with msgctl08 from ltp with a preemptible kernel. Fix: Call ipc_lock_object() before performing the check. The patch also moves security_msg_queue_msgsnd() under ipc_lock_object: - msgctl(IPC_SET) explicitely mentions that it tries to expunge any pending operations that are not allowed anymore with the new permissions. If security_msg_queue_msgsnd() is called without locks, then there might be races. - it makes the patch much simpler. Reported-and-tested-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 9f29d9e89bac..b65fdf1a09dd 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -680,16 +680,18 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
goto out_unlock1;
}
+ ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+
for (;;) {
struct msg_sender s;
err = -EACCES;
if (ipcperms(ns, &msq->q_perm, S_IWUGO))
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
err = security_msg_queue_msgsnd(msq, msg, msgflg);
if (err)
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
if (msgsz + msq->q_cbytes <= msq->q_qbytes &&
1 + msq->q_qnum <= msq->q_qbytes) {
@@ -699,10 +701,9 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
/* queue full, wait: */
if (msgflg & IPC_NOWAIT) {
err = -EAGAIN;
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
}
- ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
ss_add(msq, &s);
if (!ipc_rcu_getref(msq)) {
@@ -730,10 +731,7 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
goto out_unlock0;
}
- ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
}
-
- ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
msq->q_lspid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
msq->q_stime = get_seconds();