linux/ipc, branch v3.13.2

ipc,shm: correct error return value in shmctl (SHM_UNLOCK)

2013-11-22T00:42:28Z

Commit 2caacaa82a51 ("ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl") restructured the ipc shm to shorten critical region, but introduced a path where the return value could be -EPERM, even if the operation actually was performed. Before the commit, the err return value was reset by the return value from security_shm_shmctl() after the if (!ns_capable(...)) statement. Now, we still exit the if statement with err set to -EPERM, and in the case of SHM_UNLOCK, it is not reset at all, and used as the return value from shmctl. To fix this, we only set err when errors occur, leaving the fallthrough case alone. Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Al Viro Cc: [3.12.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,shm: fix shm_file deletion races

2013-11-22T00:42:27Z

When IPC_RMID races with other shm operations there's potential for use-after-free of the shm object's associated file (shm_file). Here's the race before this patch: TASK 1 TASK 2 ------ ------ shm_rmid() ipc_lock_object() shmctl() shp = shm_obtain_object_check() shm_destroy() shum_unlock() fput(shp->shm_file) ipc_lock_object() shmem_lock(shp->shm_file) The oops is caused because shm_destroy() calls fput() after dropping the ipc_lock. fput() clears the file's f_inode, f_path.dentry, and f_path.mnt, which causes various NULL pointer references in task 2. I reliably see the oops in task 2 if with shmlock, shmu This patch fixes the races by: 1) set shm_file=NULL in shm_destroy() while holding ipc_object_lock(). 2) modify at risk operations to check shm_file while holding ipc_object_lock(). Example workloads, which each trigger oops... Workload 1: while true; do id=$(shmget 1 4096) shm_rmid $id & shmlock $id & wait done The oops stack shows accessing NULL f_inode due to racing fput: _raw_spin_lock shmem_lock SyS_shmctl Workload 2: while true; do id=$(shmget 1 4096) shmat $id 4096 & shm_rmid $id & wait done The oops stack is similar to workload 1 due to NULL f_inode: touch_atime shmem_mmap shm_mmap mmap_region do_mmap_pgoff do_shmat SyS_shmat Workload 3: while true; do id=$(shmget 1 4096) shmlock $id shm_rmid $id & shmunlock $id & wait done The oops stack shows second fput tripping on an NULL f_inode. The first fput() completed via from shm_destroy(), but a racing thread did a get_file() and queued this fput(): locks_remove_flock __fput ____fput task_work_run do_notify_resume int_signal Fixes: c2c737a0461e ("ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat") Fixes: 2caacaa82a51 ("ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl") Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: # 3.10.17+ 3.11.6+ Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

2013-11-13T06:45:43Z

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further next->mainline merging, but this batch contains: - Lots of random misc patches - OCFS2 - Most of MM - backlight updates - lib/ updates - printk updates - checkpatch updates - epoll tweaking - rtc updates - hfs - hfsplus - documentation - procfs - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format - IPC" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (269 commits) ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata() drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page() drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer gcov: reuse kbasename helper kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn() kernel/module.c: use pr_foo() gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener() kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end() kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-11-13T06:34:18Z

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...

ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values

2013-11-13T03:09:36Z

On 64 bit systems the test for negative message sizes is bogus as the size, which may be positive when evaluated as a long, will get truncated to an int when passed to load_msg(). So a long might very well contain a positive value but when truncated to an int it would become negative. That in combination with a small negative value of msg_ctlmax (which will be promoted to an unsigned type for the comparison against msgsz, making it a big positive value and therefore make it pass the check) will lead to two problems: 1/ The kmalloc() call in alloc_msg() will allocate a too small buffer as the addition of alen is effectively a subtraction. 2/ The copy_from_user() call in load_msg() will first overflow the buffer with userland data and then, when the userland access generates an access violation, the fixup handler copy_user_handle_tail() will try to fill the remainder with zeros -- roughly 4GB. That almost instantly results in a system crash or reset. ,-[ Reproducer (needs to be run as root) ]-- | #include | #include | #include | #include | | int main(void) { | long msg = 1; | int fd; | | fd = open("/proc/sys/kernel/msgmax", O_WRONLY); | write(fd, "-1", 2); | close(fd); | | msgsnd(0, &msg, 0xfffffff0, IPC_NOWAIT); | | return 0; | } '--- Fix the issue by preventing msgsz from getting truncated by consistently using size_t for the message length. This way the size checks in do_msgsnd() could still be passed with a negative value for msg_ctlmax but we would fail on the buffer allocation in that case and error out. Also change the type of m_ts from int to size_t to avoid similar nastiness in other code paths -- it is used in similar constructs, i.e. signed vs. unsigned checks. It should never become negative under normal circumstances, though. Setting msg_ctlmax to a negative value is an odd configuration and should be prevented. As that might break existing userland, it will be handled in a separate commit so it could easily be reverted and reworked without reintroducing the above described bug. Hardening mechanisms for user copy operations would have catched that bug early -- e.g. checking slab object sizes on user copy operations as the usercopy feature of the PaX patch does. Or, for that matter, detect the long vs. int sign change due to truncation, as the size overflow plugin of the very same patch does. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 min() warnings] Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Pax Team Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Brad Spengler Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: [ v2.3.27+ -- yes, that old ;) ] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test

2013-11-13T03:09:36Z

Remove unnecessary work pending test before calling schedule_work(). It has been tested in queue_work_on() already. No functional changed. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi Cc: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

locks: break delegations on unlink

2013-11-09T05:16:42Z

We need to break delegations on any operation that changes the set of links pointing to an inode. Start with unlink. Such operations also hold the i_mutex on a parent directory. Breaking a delegation may require waiting for a timeout (by default 90 seconds) in the case of a unresponsive NFS client. To avoid blocking all directory operations, we therefore drop locks before waiting for the delegation. The logic then looks like: acquire locks ... test for delegation; if found: take reference on inode release locks wait for delegation break drop reference on inode retry It is possible this could never terminate. (Even if we take precautions to prevent another delegation being acquired on the same inode, we could get a different inode on each retry.) But this seems very unlikely. The initial test for a delegation happens after the lock on the target inode is acquired, but the directory inode may have been acquired further up the call stack. We therefore add a "struct inode **" argument to any intervening functions, which we use to pass the inode back up to the caller in the case it needs a delegation synchronously broken. Cc: David Howells Cc: Tyler Hicks Cc: Dustin Kirkland Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ipc, msg: forbid negative values for "msg{max,mnb,mni}"

2013-11-03T18:53:11Z

Negative message lengths make no sense -- so don't do negative queue lenghts or identifier counts. Prevent them from getting negative. Also change the underlying data types to be unsigned to avoid hairy surprises with sign extensions in cases where those variables get evaluated in unsigned expressions with bigger data types, e.g size_t. In case a user still wants to have "unlimited" sizes she could just use INT_MAX instead. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/sem.c: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID

2013-10-17T04:35:52Z

After acquiring the semlock spinlock, operations must test that the array is still valid. - semctl() and exit_sem() would walk stale linked lists (ugly, but should be ok: all lists are empty) - semtimedop() would sleep forever - and if woken up due to a signal - access memory after free. The patch also: - standardizes the tests for .deleted, so that all tests in one function leave the function with the same approach. - unconditionally tests for .deleted immediately after every call to sem_lock - even it it means that for semctl(GETALL), .deleted will be tested twice. Both changes make the review simpler: After every sem_lock, there must be a test of .deleted, followed by a goto to the cleanup code (if the function uses "goto cleanup"). The only exception is semctl_down(): If sem_ids().rwsem is locked, then the presence in ids->ipcs_idr is equivalent to !.deleted, thus no additional test is required. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Cc: Mike Galbraith Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: update locking scheme comments

2013-10-17T04:35:52Z

The initial documentation was a bit incomplete, update accordingly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it more readable in 80 columns] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds