ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:26:23 +0000 (14:26 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:45:47 +0000 (07:45 -0700)
commit c2c737a0461e61a34676bd0bd1bc1a70a1b4e396 upstream.

Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing
the initial permission and security checks.

[sasha.levin@oracle.com: dont leave do_shmat with rcu lock held]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ipc/shm.c

index 1eeef9f481542cff5f5a190ef07c0880e6b99b00..9cd876451626b3abeed92465733269c08761385d 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
  * namespaces support
  * OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
  * Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
+ *
+ * Better ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) handling
+ * Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>, June 2013.
  */
 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -1086,10 +1089,11 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
         * additional creator id...
         */
        ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
-       shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
        if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(shp);
-               goto out;
+               goto out_unlock;
        }
 
        err = -EACCES;
@@ -1100,11 +1104,13 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
        if (err)
                goto out_unlock;
 
+       ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
        path = shp->shm_file->f_path;
        path_get(&path);
        shp->shm_nattch++;
        size = i_size_read(path.dentry->d_inode);
-       shm_unlock(shp);
+       ipc_unlock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        err = -ENOMEM;
        sfd = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfd), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1175,7 +1181,7 @@ out_nattch:
        return err;
 
 out_unlock:
-       shm_unlock(shp);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 out:
        return err;
 }