From 4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuanhan Liu Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:21:51 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu Acked-By: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/printk.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file 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: -- 2.20.1