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authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>2013-09-30 13:45:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-30 14:31:03 -0700
commit4271b05a227dc6175b66c3d9941aeab09048aeb2 (patch)
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ipc,msg: prevent race with rmid in msgsnd,msgrcv
This fixes a race in both msgrcv() and msgsnd() between finding the msg and actually dealing with the queue, as another thread can delete shmid underneath us if we are preempted before acquiring the kern_ipc_perm.lock. Manfred illustrates this nicely: Assume a preemptible kernel that is preempted just after msq = msq_obtain_object_check(ns, msqid) in do_msgrcv(). The only lock that is held is rcu_read_lock(). Now the other thread processes IPC_RMID. When the first task is resumed, then it will happily wait for messages on a deleted queue. Fix this by checking for if the queue has been deleted after taking the lock. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reported-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.11] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/msg.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 9e4310c546ae..558aa91186b6 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -695,6 +695,12 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
if (ipcperms(ns, &msq->q_perm, S_IWUGO))
goto out_unlock0;
+ /* raced with RMID? */
+ if (msq->q_perm.deleted) {
+ err = -EIDRM;
+ goto out_unlock0;
+ }
+
err = security_msg_queue_msgsnd(msq, msg, msgflg);
if (err)
goto out_unlock0;
@@ -901,6 +907,13 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp, int msgfl
goto out_unlock1;
ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+
+ /* raced with RMID? */
+ if (msq->q_perm.deleted) {
+ msg = ERR_PTR(-EIDRM);
+ goto out_unlock0;
+ }
+
msg = find_msg(msq, &msgtyp, mode);
if (!IS_ERR(msg)) {
/*