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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-01-05 16:32:43 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-13 09:17:36 +0100
commit7485d0d3758e8e6491a5c9468114e74dc050785d (patch)
tree073fb295550c96f075cbf968858bbab7e9fe5061 /kernel/futex.c
parent7284ce6c9f6153d1777df5f310c959724d1bd446 (diff)
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futexes: Remove rw parameter from get_futex_key()
Currently, futexes have two problem: A) The current futex code doesn't handle private file mappings properly. get_futex_key() uses PageAnon() to distinguish file and anon, which can cause the following bad scenario: 1) thread-A call futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAIT), it sleeps on file mapping object. 2) thread-B writes a variable and it makes it cow. 3) thread-B calls futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAKE), it wakes up blocked thread on the anonymous page. (but it's nothing) B) Current futex code doesn't handle zero page properly. Read mode get_user_pages() can return zero page, but current futex code doesn't handle it at all. Then, zero page makes infinite loop internally. The solution is to use write mode get_user_page() always for page lookup. It prevents the lookup of both file page of private mappings and zero page. Performance concerns: Probaly very little, because glibc always initialize variables for futex before to call futex(). It means glibc users never see the overhead of this patch. Compatibility concerns: This patch has few compatibility issues. After this patch, FUTEX_WAIT require writable access to futex variables (read-only mappings makes EFAULT). But practically it's not a problem, glibc always initalizes variables for futexes explicitly - nobody uses read-only mappings. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100105162633.45A2.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c27
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 8e3c3ffe1b9a..d9b3a2228f9d 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -203,8 +203,6 @@ static void drop_futex_key_refs(union futex_key *key)
* @uaddr: virtual address of the futex
* @fshared: 0 for a PROCESS_PRIVATE futex, 1 for PROCESS_SHARED
* @key: address where result is stored.
- * @rw: mapping needs to be read/write (values: VERIFY_READ,
- * VERIFY_WRITE)
*
* Returns a negative error code or 0
* The key words are stored in *key on success.
@@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ static void drop_futex_key_refs(union futex_key *key)
* lock_page() might sleep, the caller should not hold a spinlock.
*/
static int
-get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key, int rw)
+get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key)
{
unsigned long address = (unsigned long)uaddr;
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -239,7 +237,7 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key, int rw)
* but access_ok() should be faster than find_vma()
*/
if (!fshared) {
- if (unlikely(!access_ok(rw, uaddr, sizeof(u32))))
+ if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32))))
return -EFAULT;
key->private.mm = mm;
key->private.address = address;
@@ -248,7 +246,7 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key, int rw)
}
again:
- err = get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, rw == VERIFY_WRITE, &page);
+ err = get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 1, &page);
if (err < 0)
return err;
@@ -867,7 +865,7 @@ static int futex_wake(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, int nr_wake, u32 bitset)
if (!bitset)
return -EINVAL;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &key, VERIFY_READ);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &key);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
@@ -913,10 +911,10 @@ futex_wake_op(u32 __user *uaddr1, int fshared, u32 __user *uaddr2,
int ret, op_ret;
retry:
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr1, fshared, &key1, VERIFY_READ);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr1, fshared, &key1);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2, VERIFY_WRITE);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out_put_key1;
@@ -1175,11 +1173,10 @@ retry:
pi_state = NULL;
}
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr1, fshared, &key1, VERIFY_READ);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr1, fshared, &key1);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2,
- requeue_pi ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out_put_key1;
@@ -1738,7 +1735,7 @@ static int futex_wait_setup(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 val, int fshared,
*/
retry:
q->key = FUTEX_KEY_INIT;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &q->key, VERIFY_READ);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &q->key);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
return ret;
@@ -1904,7 +1901,7 @@ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
q.requeue_pi_key = NULL;
retry:
q.key = FUTEX_KEY_INIT;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &q.key, VERIFY_WRITE);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &q.key);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
@@ -2023,7 +2020,7 @@ retry:
if ((uval & FUTEX_TID_MASK) != task_pid_vnr(current))
return -EPERM;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &key, VERIFY_WRITE);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr, fshared, &key);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;
@@ -2215,7 +2212,7 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
rt_waiter.task = NULL;
key2 = FUTEX_KEY_INIT;
- ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2, VERIFY_WRITE);
+ ret = get_futex_key(uaddr2, fshared, &key2);
if (unlikely(ret != 0))
goto out;