linux/ipc/msg.c, branch v3.12

ipc,msg: prevent race with rmid in msgsnd,msgrcv

2013-09-30T21:31:03Z

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 Reported-by: Manfred Spraul Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: [3.11] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: fix race with LSMs

2013-09-24T16:36:53Z

Currently, IPC mechanisms do security and auditing related checks under RCU. However, since security modules can free the security structure, for example, through selinux_[sem,msg_queue,shm]_free_security(), we can race if the structure is freed before other tasks are done with it, creating a use-after-free condition. Manfred illustrates this nicely, for instance with shared mem and selinux: -> do_shmat calls rcu_read_lock() -> do_shmat calls shm_object_check(). Checks that the object is still valid - but doesn't acquire any locks. Then it returns. -> do_shmat calls security_shm_shmat (e.g. selinux_shm_shmat) -> selinux_shm_shmat calls ipc_has_perm() -> ipc_has_perm accesses ipc_perms->security shm_close() -> shm_close acquires rw_mutex & shm_lock -> shm_close calls shm_destroy -> shm_destroy calls security_shm_free (e.g. selinux_shm_free_security) -> selinux_shm_free_security calls ipc_free_security(&shp->shm_perm) -> ipc_free_security calls kfree(ipc_perms->security) This patch delays the freeing of the security structures after all RCU readers are done. Furthermore it aligns the security life cycle with that of the rest of IPC - freeing them based on the reference counter. For situations where we need not free security, the current behavior is kept. Linus states: "... the old behavior was suspect for another reason too: having the security blob go away from under a user sounds like it could cause various other problems anyway, so I think the old code was at least _prone_ to bugs even if it didn't have catastrophic behavior." I have tested this patch with IPC testcases from LTP on both my quad-core laptop and on a 64 core NUMA server. In both cases selinux is enabled, and tests pass for both voluntary and forced preemption models. While the mentioned races are theoretical (at least no one as reported them), I wanted to make sure that this new logic doesn't break anything we weren't aware of. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock

2013-09-11T22:59:42Z

There is only one user left, drop this function and just call ipc_unlock_object() and rcu_read_unlock(). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

2013-09-11T22:59:42Z

Since in some situations the lock can be shared for readers, we shouldn't be calling it a mutex, rename it to rwsem. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd().

2013-09-03T17:42:56Z

The check if the queue is full and adding current to the wait queue of pending msgsnd() operations (ss_add()) must be atomic. Otherwise: - the thread that performs msgsnd() finds a full queue and decides to sleep. - the thread that performs msgrcv() first reads all messages from the queue and then sleeps, because the queue is empty. - the msgrcv() calls do not perform any wakeups, because the msgsnd() task has not yet called ss_add(). - then the msgsnd()-thread first calls ss_add() and then sleeps. Net result: msgsnd() and msgrcv() both sleep forever. Observed with msgctl08 from ltp with a preemptible kernel. Fix: Call ipc_lock_object() before performing the check. The patch also moves security_msg_queue_msgsnd() under ipc_lock_object: - msgctl(IPC_SET) explicitely mentions that it tries to expunge any pending operations that are not allowed anymore with the new permissions. If security_msg_queue_msgsnd() is called without locks, then there might be races. - it makes the patch much simpler. Reported-and-tested-by: Vineet Gupta Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # for 3.11 Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: bugfix for msgrcv with msgtyp < 0

2013-08-29T02:26:38Z

According to 'man msgrcv': "If msgtyp is less than 0, the first message of the lowest type that is less than or equal to the absolute value of msgtyp shall be received." Bug: The kernel only returns a message if its type is 1; other messages with type < abs(msgtype) will never get returned. Fix: After having traversed the list to find the first message with the lowest type, we need to actually return that message. This regression was introduced by commit daaf74cf0867 ("ipc: refactor msg list search into separate function") Signed-off-by: Svenning Soerensen Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: remove unused functions

2013-07-09T17:33:27Z

We can now drop the msg_lock and msg_lock_check functions along with a bogus comment introduced previously in semctl_down. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,msg: shorten critical region in msgrcv

2013-07-09T17:33:27Z

do_msgrcv() is the last msg queue function that abuses the ipc lock Take it only when needed when actually updating msq. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,msg: shorten critical region in msgsnd

2013-07-09T17:33:27Z

do_msgsnd() is another function that does too many things with the ipc object lock acquired. Take it only when needed when actually updating msq. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,msg: make msgctl_nolock lockless

2013-07-09T17:33:27Z

While the INFO cmd doesn't take the ipc lock, the STAT commands do acquire it unnecessarily. We can do the permissions and security checks only holding the rcu lock. This function now mimics semctl_nolock(). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds