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authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>2013-09-11 14:26:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:59:42 -0700
commitc2c737a0461e61a34676bd0bd1bc1a70a1b4e396 (patch)
treef8d9d21cbc43ac12a67bbc428cab083adb31cd30 /ipc/shm.c
parentf42569b1388b1408b574a5e93a23a663647d4181 (diff)
downloadlinux-c2c737a0461e61a34676bd0bd1bc1a70a1b4e396.tar.gz
ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing
the initial permission and security checks.

[sasha.levin@oracle.com: dont leave do_shmat with rcu lock held]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/shm.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 115dccebc63e..28d19f4ece4b 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
  * namespaces support
  * OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
  * Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
+ *
+ * Better ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) handling
+ * Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>, June 2013.
  */
 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -1086,10 +1089,11 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
 	 * additional creator id...
 	 */
 	ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
-	shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
 	if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(shp);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	err = -EACCES;
@@ -1100,11 +1104,13 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
 	if (err)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
 	path = shp->shm_file->f_path;
 	path_get(&path);
 	shp->shm_nattch++;
 	size = i_size_read(path.dentry->d_inode);
-	shm_unlock(shp);
+	ipc_unlock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	sfd = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfd), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1175,7 +1181,7 @@ out_nattch:
 	return err;
 
 out_unlock:
-	shm_unlock(shp);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 out:
 	return err;
 }