The patch titled
Subject: ipc,sysv: make return -EIDRM when racing with RMID consistent
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ipcsysv-make-return-eidrm-when-racing-with-rmid-consistent.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ipc,sysv: make return -EIDRM when racing with RMID consistent
The ipc_lock helper is used by all forms of sysv ipc to acquire the ipc
object's spinlock. Upon error (bogus identifier), we always return
-EINVAL, whether the problem be in the idr path or because we raced with a
task performing RMID. For the later, however, all ipc related manpages,
state the that for:
EIDRM <ID> points to a removed identifier.
And return:
EINVAL Invalid <ID> value, or unaligned, etc.
Which (EINVAL) should only return once the ipc resource is deleted. For
all types of ipc this is done immediately upon a RMID command. However,
shared memory behaves slightly different as it can merely mark a segment
for deletion, and delay the actual freeing until there are no more active
consumers. Per shmctl(IPC_RMID) manpage:
""
Mark the segment to be destroyed. The segment will only actually
be destroyed after the last process detaches it (i.e., when the
shm_nattch member of the associated structure shmid_ds is zero).
""
Unlike ipc_lock, paths that behave "correctly", at least per the manpage,
involve controlling the ipc resource via *ctl(), doing the exact same
validity check as ipc_lock after right acquiring the spinlock:
if (!ipc_valid_object()) {
err = -EIDRM;
goto out_unlock;
}
Thus make ipc_lock consistent with the rest of ipc code and return -EIDRM
in ipc_lock when !ipc_valid_object().
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/util.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN ipc/util.c~ipcsysv-make-return-eidrm-when-racing-with-rmid-consistent ipc/util.c
--- a/ipc/util.c~ipcsysv-make-return-eidrm-when-racing-with-rmid-consistent
+++ a/ipc/util.c
@@ -583,19 +583,22 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock(struct ip
rcu_read_lock();
out = ipc_obtain_object_idr(ids, id);
if (IS_ERR(out))
- goto err1;
+ goto err;
spin_lock(&out->lock);
- /* ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while ipc_lock
- * was spinning: here verify that the structure is still valid
+ /*
+ * ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while ipc_lock()
+ * was spinning: here verify that the structure is still valid.
+ * Upon races with RMID, return -EIDRM, thus indicating that
+ * the ID points to a removed identifier.
*/
if (ipc_valid_object(out))
return out;
spin_unlock(&out->lock);
- out = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-err1:
+ out = ERR_PTR(-EIDRM);
+err:
rcu_read_unlock();
return out;
}
_
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