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    ipc,sysv: make return -EIDRM when racing with RMID consistent · f8b59184
    Davidlohr Bueso authored
    The ipc_lock helper is used by all forms of sysv ipc to acquire the ipc
    object's spinlock.  Upon error (bogus identifier), we always return
    -EINVAL, whether the problem be in the idr path or because we raced with a
    task performing RMID.  For the later, however, all ipc related manpages,
    state the that for:
    
           EIDRM  <ID> points to a removed identifier.
    
    And return:
    
           EINVAL Invalid <ID> value, or unaligned, etc.
    
    Which (EINVAL) should only return once the ipc resource is deleted.  For
    all types of ipc this is done immediately upon a RMID command.  However,
    shared memory behaves slightly different as it can merely mark a segment
    for deletion, and delay the actual freeing until there are no more active
    consumers.  Per shmctl(IPC_RMID) manpage:
    
    ""
    Mark  the  segment to be destroyed.  The segment will only actually
    be destroyed after the last process detaches it (i.e., when the
    shm_nattch member of the associated structure shmid_ds is zero).
    ""
    
    Unlike ipc_lock, paths that behave "correctly", at least per the manpage,
    involve controlling the ipc resource via *ctl(), doing the exact same
    validity check as ipc_lock after right acquiring the spinlock:
    
    	if (!ipc_valid_object()) {
    		err = -EIDRM;
    		goto out_unlock;
    	}
    
    Thus make ipc_lock consistent with the rest of ipc code and return -EIDRM
    in ipc_lock when !ipc_valid_object().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
    Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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