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This patch fixes a race found by Ram in mark_mounts_for_expiry() in
fs/namespace.c.
The bug can only be triggered with simultaneous exiting of a process having
a private namespace, and expiry of a mount from within that namespace.
It's practically impossible to trigger, and I haven't even tried. But
still, a bug is a bug.
The race happens when put_namespace() is called by another task, while
mark_mounts_for_expiry() is between atomic_read() and get_namespace(). In
that case get_namespace() will be called on an already dead namespace with
unforeseeable results.
The solution was suggested by Al Viro, with his own words:
Instead of screwing with atomic_read() in there, why don't we
simply do the following:
a) atomic_dec_and_lock() in put_namespace()
b) __put_namespace() called without dropping lock
c) the first thing done by __put_namespace would be
struct vfsmount *root = namespace->root;
namespace->root = NULL;
spin_unlock(...);
....
umount_tree(root);
...
d) check in mark_... would be simply namespace && namespace->root.
And we are all set; no screwing around with atomic_read(), no magic
at all. Dying namespace gets NULL ->root.
All changes of ->root happen under spinlock.
If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace, it won't be
freed until we drop the lock (we will set ->mnt_namespace to NULL
under that lock before we get to freeing namespace).
If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace and
->mnt_namespace->root, we can grab a reference to namespace and be
sure that it won't go away.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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858 B
C
43 lines
858 B
C
#ifndef _NAMESPACE_H_
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#define _NAMESPACE_H_
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#ifdef __KERNEL__
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#include <linux/mount.h>
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#include <linux/sched.h>
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struct namespace {
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atomic_t count;
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struct vfsmount * root;
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struct list_head list;
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struct rw_semaphore sem;
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};
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extern int copy_namespace(int, struct task_struct *);
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extern void __put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace);
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static inline void put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace)
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{
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if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&namespace->count, &vfsmount_lock))
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/* releases vfsmount_lock */
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__put_namespace(namespace);
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}
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static inline void exit_namespace(struct task_struct *p)
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{
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struct namespace *namespace = p->namespace;
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if (namespace) {
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task_lock(p);
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p->namespace = NULL;
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task_unlock(p);
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put_namespace(namespace);
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}
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}
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static inline void get_namespace(struct namespace *namespace)
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{
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atomic_inc(&namespace->count);
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}
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#endif
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#endif
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