ipc/msg: fix race around refcount
[fixed differently in 6062a8dc upstream.] In older kernels (before v3.10) ipc_rcu_hdr->refcount was non-atomic int. There was possuble double-free bug: do_msgsnd() calls ipc_rcu_putref() under msq->q_perm->lock and RCU, while freequeue() calls it while it holds only 'rw_mutex', so there is no sinchronization between them. Two function decrements '2' non-atomically, they both can get '0' as result. do_msgsnd() freequeue() msq = msg_lock_check(ns, msqid); ... ipc_rcu_getref(msq); msg_unlock(msq); schedule(); (caller locks spinlock) expunge_all(msq, -EIDRM); ss_wakeup(&msq->q_senders, 1); msg_rmid(ns, msq); msg_unlock(msq); ipc_lock_by_ptr(&msq->q_perm); ipc_rcu_putref(msq); ipc_rcu_putref(msq); < both may get get --(...)->refcount == 0 > This patch locks ipc_lock and RCU around ipc_rcu_putref in freequeue. ( RCU protects memory for spin_unlock() ) Similar bugs might be in other users of ipc_rcu_putref(). In the mainline this has been fixed in v3.10 indirectly in commmit 6062a8dc ("ipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop") by Rik van Riel. That commit optimized locking and converted refcount into atomic. I'm not sure that anybody should care about this bug: it's very-very unlikely and no longer exists in actual mainline. I've found this just by looking into the code, probably this never happens in real life. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com>
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