The patch titled
Subject: ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ipc-semc-fix-incorrect-sem_lock-pairing.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing
Based on the syzcaller test case from dvyukov:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/d0e5efefe4d7d6daed829f5c3ca26a40/raw/08d0a261fe3c987bed04fbf267e08ba04bd533ea/gistfile1.txt
The slow (i.e.: failure to acquire) syscall exit from semtimedop()
incorrectly assumed that the the same lock is acquired as it was at the
initial syscall entry.
This is wrong:
- thread A: single semop semop(), sleeps
- thread B: multi semop semop(), sleeps
- thread A: woken up by signal/timeout
With this sequence, the initial sem_lock() call locks the per-semaphore
spinlock, and it is unlocked with sem_unlock(). The call at the syscall
return locks the global spinlock. Because locknum is not updated, the
following sem_unlock() call unlocks the per-semaphore spinlock, which is
actually not locked.
The fix is trivial: Use the return value from sem_lock.
Fixes: 370b262c896e ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482215645-22328-1-git-send-email-manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Johanna Abrahamsson <johanna@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Johanna Abrahamsson <johanna@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/sem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN ipc/sem.c~ipc-semc-fix-incorrect-sem_lock-pairing ipc/sem.c
--- a/ipc/sem.c~ipc-semc-fix-incorrect-sem_lock-pairing
+++ a/ipc/sem.c
@@ -1977,7 +1977,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(semtimedop, int, semid,
}
rcu_read_lock();
- sem_lock(sma, sops, nsops);
+ locknum = sem_lock(sma, sops, nsops);
if (!ipc_valid_object(&sma->sem_perm))
goto out_unlock_free;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
ipc-semc-avoid-using-spin_unlock_wait.patch
ipc-sem-add-hysteresis.patch
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