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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-08-31 17:00:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-08-31 17:00:18 -0700 |
| commit | 950eaaca681c44aab87a46225c9e44f902c080aa (patch) | |
| tree | 5f0290db3f84b7f2929ae53729d74a59dc5bb5e9 /kernel/sys.c | |
| parent | 6cb6cbeaa9d6573c674842b9471c0467967aae99 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-950eaaca681c44aab87a46225c9e44f902c080aa.tar.gz lwn-950eaaca681c44aab87a46225c9e44f902c080aa.zip | |
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
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[ 23.585059] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[ 23.585176] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 23.585176] kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
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[ 23.585176] other info that might help us debug this:
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[ 23.585176] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[ 23.585176] 1 lock held by rc.sysinit/728:
[ 23.585176] #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8104771f>] sys_setpgid+0x5f/0x193
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[ 23.585176] stack backtrace:
[ 23.585176] Pid: 728, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2 #2
[ 23.585176] Call Trace:
[ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8105b436>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x99/0xa2
[ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8104c324>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x50/0x6a
[ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8104c35b>] find_task_by_vpid+0x1d/0x1f
[ 23.585176] [<ffffffff81047727>] sys_setpgid+0x67/0x193
[ 23.585176] [<ffffffff810029eb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 24.959669] type=1400 audit(1282938522.956:4): avc: denied { module_request } for pid=766 comm="hwclock" kmod="char-major-10-135" scontext=system_u:system_r:hwclock_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tclas
It turns out that the setpgid() system call fails to enter an RCU
read-side critical section before doing a PID-to-task_struct translation.
This commit therefore does rcu_read_lock() before the translation, and
also does rcu_read_unlock() after the last use of the returned pointer.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index e9ad44489828..7f5a0cd296a9 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setpgid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, pgid) pgid = pid; if (pgid < 0) return -EINVAL; + rcu_read_lock(); /* From this point forward we keep holding onto the tasklist lock * so that our parent does not change from under us. -DaveM @@ -984,6 +985,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setpgid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, pgid) out: /* All paths lead to here, thus we are safe. -DaveM */ write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return err; } |