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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-21 10:11:51 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-21 10:11:51 -0800
commitd5fa080d4ceaa8fec0fb28e27c7447caf4b4d22b (patch)
treeb745a877250b2490dcbe0639d9d41060c6a960a5
parent70ad6368e878857db315788dab36817aa992c86a (diff)
parentda791a667536bf8322042e38ca85d55a78d3c273 (diff)
Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar: "A single fix for a robust futexes race between sys_exit() and sys_futex_lock_pi()" * 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Cure exit race
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c69
1 files changed, 63 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index f423f9b6577e..5cc8083a4c89 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1148,11 +1148,65 @@ out_error:
return ret;
}
+static int handle_exit_race(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
+ struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ u32 uval2;
+
+ /*
+ * If PF_EXITPIDONE is not yet set, then try again.
+ */
+ if (tsk && !(tsk->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ /*
+ * Reread the user space value to handle the following situation:
+ *
+ * CPU0 CPU1
+ *
+ * sys_exit() sys_futex()
+ * do_exit() futex_lock_pi()
+ * futex_lock_pi_atomic()
+ * exit_signals(tsk) No waiters:
+ * tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING; *uaddr == 0x00000PID
+ * mm_release(tsk) Set waiter bit
+ * exit_robust_list(tsk) { *uaddr = 0x80000PID;
+ * Set owner died attach_to_pi_owner() {
+ * *uaddr = 0xC0000000; tsk = get_task(PID);
+ * } if (!tsk->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+ * ... attach();
+ * tsk->flags |= PF_EXITPIDONE; } else {
+ * if (!(tsk->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE))
+ * return -EAGAIN;
+ * return -ESRCH; <--- FAIL
+ * }
+ *
+ * Returning ESRCH unconditionally is wrong here because the
+ * user space value has been changed by the exiting task.
+ *
+ * The same logic applies to the case where the exiting task is
+ * already gone.
+ */
+ if (get_futex_value_locked(&uval2, uaddr))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ /* If the user space value has changed, try again. */
+ if (uval2 != uval)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ /*
+ * The exiting task did not have a robust list, the robust list was
+ * corrupted or the user space value in *uaddr is simply bogus.
+ * Give up and tell user space.
+ */
+ return -ESRCH;
+}
+
/*
* Lookup the task for the TID provided from user space and attach to
* it after doing proper sanity checks.
*/
-static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
+static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
struct futex_pi_state **ps)
{
pid_t pid = uval & FUTEX_TID_MASK;
@@ -1162,12 +1216,15 @@ static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
/*
* We are the first waiter - try to look up the real owner and attach
* the new pi_state to it, but bail out when TID = 0 [1]
+ *
+ * The !pid check is paranoid. None of the call sites should end up
+ * with pid == 0, but better safe than sorry. Let the caller retry
*/
if (!pid)
- return -ESRCH;
+ return -EAGAIN;
p = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
if (!p)
- return -ESRCH;
+ return handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, NULL);
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
put_task_struct(p);
@@ -1187,7 +1244,7 @@ static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
* set, we know that the task has finished the
* cleanup:
*/
- int ret = (p->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE) ? -ESRCH : -EAGAIN;
+ int ret = handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, p);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&p->pi_lock);
put_task_struct(p);
@@ -1244,7 +1301,7 @@ static int lookup_pi_state(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
* We are the first waiter - try to look up the owner based on
* @uval and attach to it.
*/
- return attach_to_pi_owner(uval, key, ps);
+ return attach_to_pi_owner(uaddr, uval, key, ps);
}
static int lock_pi_update_atomic(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, u32 newval)
@@ -1352,7 +1409,7 @@ static int futex_lock_pi_atomic(u32 __user *uaddr, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
* attach to the owner. If that fails, no harm done, we only
* set the FUTEX_WAITERS bit in the user space variable.
*/
- return attach_to_pi_owner(uval, key, ps);
+ return attach_to_pi_owner(uaddr, newval, key, ps);
}
/**