The patch titled proc: fix PDE refcounting has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-fix-pde-refcounting.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: proc: fix PDE refcounting From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and ->deleted flag has problems (see below). Switch to usual scheme: * PDE is created with refcount 1 * every de_get does +1 * every de_put() and remove_proc_entry() do -1 * once refcnt reaches 0, PDE is freed. This elegantly fixes at least two followint races (both observed) without new locks, without abusing old locks, without spreading lock_kernel(): 1) PDE leak remove_proc_entry de_put ----------------- ------ [refcount=1, deleted=0] if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0) if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) [refcount=0, deleted=0] if (de->deleted) /* also not taken! */ free_proc_entry(de); else de->deleted = 1; [refcount=0, deleted=1] 2) use after free remove_proc_entry de_put ----------------- ------ [refcnt=1, deleted=0] if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0) free_proc_entry(de); /* boom! */ if (de->deleted) free_proc_entry(de); BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b printing eip: c10acdda *pdpt = 00000000338f8001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: af_packet ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand loop serio_raw psmouse k8temp hwmon sr_mod cdrom Pid: 23161, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc2-8c0863403f109a43d7000b4646da4818220d501f #4) EIP: 0060:[<c10acdda>] EFLAGS: 00210097 CPU: 1 EIP is at strnlen+0x6/0x18 EAX: 6b6b6b6b EBX: 6b6b6b6b ECX: 6b6b6b6b EDX: fffffffe ESI: c128fa3b EDI: f380bf34 EBP: ffffffff ESP: f380be44 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process cat (pid: 23161, ti=f380b000 task=f38f2570 task.ti=f380b000) Stack: c10ac4f0 00000278 c12ce000 f43cd2a8 00000163 00000000 7da86067 00000400 c128fa20 00896b18 f38325a8 c128fe20 ffffffff 00000000 c11f291e 00000400 f75be300 c128fa20 f769c9a0 c10ac779 f380bf34 f7bfee70 c1018e6b f380bf34 Call Trace: [<c10ac4f0>] vsnprintf+0x2ad/0x49b [<c10ac779>] vscnprintf+0x14/0x1f [<c1018e6b>] vprintk+0xc5/0x2f9 [<c10379f1>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xab [<c1004f44>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb7 [<c117db3b>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x3f/0x5b [<c100264e>] need_resched+0x1f/0x21 [<c10190ba>] printk+0x1b/0x1f [<c107c8ad>] de_put+0x3d/0x50 [<c107c8f8>] proc_delete_inode+0x38/0x41 [<c107c8c0>] proc_delete_inode+0x0/0x41 [<c1066298>] generic_delete_inode+0x5e/0xc6 [<c1065aa9>] iput+0x60/0x62 [<c1063c8e>] d_kill+0x2d/0x46 [<c1063fa9>] dput+0xdc/0xe4 [<c10571a1>] __fput+0xb0/0xcd [<c1054e49>] filp_close+0x48/0x4f [<c1055ee9>] sys_close+0x67/0xa5 [<c10026b6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 ======================= Code: c9 74 0c f2 ae 74 05 bf 01 00 00 00 4f 89 fa 5f 89 d0 c3 85 c9 57 89 c7 89 d0 74 05 f2 ae 75 01 4f 89 f8 5f c3 89 c1 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 c3 90 90 90 57 83 c9 EIP: [<c10acdda>] strnlen+0x6/0x18 SS:ESP 0068:f380be44 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/generic.c | 9 ++------- fs/proc/inode.c | 10 ++-------- fs/proc/root.c | 1 + include/linux/proc_fs.h | 1 - 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting fs/proc/generic.c --- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting +++ a/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_creat ent->namelen = len; ent->mode = mode; ent->nlink = nlink; + atomic_set(&ent->count, 1); ent->pde_users = 0; spin_lock_init(&ent->pde_unload_lock); ent->pde_unload_completion = NULL; @@ -681,7 +682,6 @@ void free_proc_entry(struct proc_dir_ent /* * Remove a /proc entry and free it if it's not currently in use. - * If it is in use, we set the 'deleted' flag. */ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) { @@ -732,11 +732,6 @@ continue_removing: parent->nlink--; de->nlink = 0; WARN_ON(de->subdir); - if (!atomic_read(&de->count)) + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) free_proc_entry(de); - else { - de->deleted = 1; - printk(KERN_ERR "remove_proc_entry: %s/%s busy, count=%d\n", - parent->name, de->name, atomic_read(&de->count)); - } } diff -puN fs/proc/inode.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting fs/proc/inode.c --- a/fs/proc/inode.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting +++ a/fs/proc/inode.c @@ -42,14 +42,8 @@ void de_put(struct proc_dir_entry *de) unlock_kernel(); return; } - - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) { - if (de->deleted) { - printk("de_put: deferred delete of %s\n", - de->name); - free_proc_entry(de); - } - } + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) + free_proc_entry(de); unlock_kernel(); } } diff -puN fs/proc/root.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting fs/proc/root.c --- a/fs/proc/root.c~proc-fix-pde-refcounting +++ a/fs/proc/root.c @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry proc_root = { .name = "/proc", .mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO, .nlink = 2, + .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .proc_iops = &proc_root_inode_operations, .proc_fops = &proc_root_operations, .parent = &proc_root, diff -puN include/linux/proc_fs.h~proc-fix-pde-refcounting include/linux/proc_fs.h --- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h~proc-fix-pde-refcounting +++ a/include/linux/proc_fs.h @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ struct proc_dir_entry { read_proc_t *read_proc; write_proc_t *write_proc; atomic_t count; /* use count */ - int deleted; /* delete flag */ int pde_users; /* number of callers into module in progress */ spinlock_t pde_unload_lock; /* proc_fops checks and pde_users bumps */ struct completion *pde_unload_completion; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxx are proc-fix-null-i_fop-oops.patch proc-remove-module_license.patch proc-less-lock-operations-during-lookup.patch proc-simplify-function-prototypes.patch proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal.patch proc-remove-useless-checks-in-proc_register.patch proc-detect-duplicate-names-on-registration.patch proc-detect-duplicate-names-on-registration-fix.patch proc-simplify-remove_proc_entry-wrt-locking.patch proc-simplify-remove_proc_entry-wrt-locking-checkpatch-fixes.patch proc-fix-pde-refcounting.patch single_open-seq_release-leak-diagnostics.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html