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authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>2019-07-16 16:30:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-16 19:23:24 -0700
commitf57e515a1b56325a28a0972c632a623a9c84590c (patch)
tree62ec1f15fb12f43288b4246780642fbfa9c1c025 /kernel/pid.c
parent156e0b1a8112b76e351684ac948c59757037ac36 (diff)
downloadlinux-f57e515a1b56325a28a0972c632a623a9c84590c.tar.gz
kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
struct pid's count is an atomic_t field used as a refcount.  Use
refcount_t for it which is basically atomic_t but does additional
checking to prevent use-after-free bugs.

For memory ordering, the only change is with the following:

 -	if ((atomic_read(&pid->count) == 1) ||
 -	     atomic_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
 +	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
 		kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid);

Here the change is from: Fully ordered --> RELEASE + ACQUIRE (as per
refcount-vs-atomic.rst) This ACQUIRE should take care of making sure the
free happens after the refcount_dec_and_test().

The above hunk also removes atomic_read() since it is not needed for the
code to work and it is unclear how beneficial it is.  The removal lets
refcount_dec_and_test() check for cases where get_pid() happened before
the object was freed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701183826.191936-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KJ Tsanaktsidis <ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 16263b526560..0a9f2e437217 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@
 #include <linux/init_task.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/proc_ns.h>
-#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
 #include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/sched/task.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 
 struct pid init_struct_pid = {
-	.count 		= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
+	.count		= REFCOUNT_INIT(1),
 	.tasks		= {
 		{ .first = NULL },
 		{ .first = NULL },
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@ void put_pid(struct pid *pid)
 		return;
 
 	ns = pid->numbers[pid->level].ns;
-	if ((atomic_read(&pid->count) == 1) ||
-	     atomic_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
+	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
 		kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid);
 		put_pid_ns(ns);
 	}
@@ -212,7 +211,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 	}
 
 	get_pid_ns(ns);
-	atomic_set(&pid->count, 1);
+	refcount_set(&pid->count, 1);
 	for (type = 0; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type)
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&pid->tasks[type]);