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| author | Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> | 2012-06-16 21:21:51 +0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-16 08:36:02 -0700 |
| commit | 4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc (patch) | |
| tree | 4b1897ff18501dae3a62c3f1618a761829eb64d7 /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | e2ae715d66bf4becfb85eb84b7150e23cf27df30 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc.tar.gz lwn-4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc.zip | |
printk: use mutex lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild
Although syslog_seq and log_next_seq stuff are protected by logbuf_lock
spin log, it's not enough. Say we have two processes A and B, and let
syslog_seq = N, while log_next_seq = N + 1, and the two processes both
come to syslog_print at almost the same time. And No matter which
process get the spin lock first, it will increase syslog_seq by one,
then release spin lock; thus later, another process increase syslog_seq
by one again. In this case, syslog_seq is bigger than syslog_next_seq.
And latter, it would make:
wait_event_interruptiable(log_wait, syslog != log_next_seq)
don't wait any more even there is no new write comes. Thus it introduce
a infinite loop reading.
I can easily see this kind of issue by the following steps:
# cat /proc/kmsg # at meantime, I don't kill rsyslog
# So they are the two processes.
# xinit # I added drm.debug=6 in the kernel parameter line,
# so that it will produce lots of message and let that
# issue happen
It's 100% reproducable on my side. And my disk will be filled up by
/var/log/messages in a quite short time.
So, introduce a mutex_lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild just like
what devkmsg_read() does. It does fix this issue as expected.
v2: use mutex_lock_interruptiable() instead (comments from Kay)
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index ceb4a2f775a1..572730bd8a5c 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -414,7 +414,9 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, if (!user) return -EBADF; - mutex_lock(&user->lock); + ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&user->lock); + if (ret) + return ret; raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); while (user->seq == log_next_seq) { if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) { @@ -976,6 +978,7 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) { bool clear = false; static int saved_console_loglevel = -1; + static DEFINE_MUTEX(syslog_mutex); int error; error = check_syslog_permissions(type, from_file); @@ -1002,11 +1005,17 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) error = -EFAULT; goto out; } + error = mutex_lock_interruptible(&syslog_mutex); + if (error) + goto out; error = wait_event_interruptible(log_wait, syslog_seq != log_next_seq); - if (error) + if (error) { + mutex_unlock(&syslog_mutex); goto out; + } error = syslog_print(buf, len); + mutex_unlock(&syslog_mutex); break; /* Read/clear last kernel messages */ case SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR: |