ipc: sysvsem: force unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) when CLONE_NEWIPC
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:59 +0000 (01:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:14 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) doesn't handle the undo lists properly, this can
cause a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing
undo lists.

Fix, part 2: perform an implicit CLONE_SYSVSEM in CLONE_NEWIPC.  CLONE_NEWIPC
creates a new IPC namespace, the task cannot access the existing semaphore
arrays after the unshare syscall.  Thus the task can/must detach from the
existing undo list entries, too.

This fixes the kernel corruption, because it makes it impossible that
undo records from two different namespaces are in sysvsem.undo_list.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/fork.c

index 01666979beac6f1a7e492d96ecf940648d1b40cf..de5c16c6b6ecd10b6898f2fc47062c987d851d36 100644 (file)
@@ -1696,7 +1696,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_flags)
                                CLONE_NEWNET))
                goto bad_unshare_out;
 
-       if (unshare_flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM)
+       /*
+        * CLONE_NEWIPC must also detach from the undolist: after switching
+        * to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
+        * namespace are unreachable.
+        */
+       if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_SYSVSEM))
                do_sysvsem = 1;
        if ((err = unshare_thread(unshare_flags)))
                goto bad_unshare_out;