This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd().
to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipc-msg.c-fix-lost-wakeup-in-msgsnd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bebcb928c820d0ee83aca4b192adc195e43e66a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:00:08 +0200
Subject: ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd().
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit bebcb928c820d0ee83aca4b192adc195e43e66a2 upstream.
The check if the queue is full and adding current to the wait queue of
pending msgsnd() operations (ss_add()) must be atomic.
Otherwise:
- the thread that performs msgsnd() finds a full queue and decides to
sleep.
- the thread that performs msgrcv() first reads all messages from the
queue and then sleeps, because the queue is empty.
- the msgrcv() calls do not perform any wakeups, because the msgsnd()
task has not yet called ss_add().
- then the msgsnd()-thread first calls ss_add() and then sleeps.
Net result: msgsnd() and msgrcv() both sleep forever.
Observed with msgctl08 from ltp with a preemptible kernel.
Fix: Call ipc_lock_object() before performing the check.
The patch also moves security_msg_queue_msgsnd() under ipc_lock_object:
- msgctl(IPC_SET) explicitely mentions that it tries to expunge any
pending operations that are not allowed anymore with the new
permissions. If security_msg_queue_msgsnd() is called without locks,
then there might be races.
- it makes the patch much simpler.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/msg.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -680,16 +680,18 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
goto out_unlock1;
}
+ ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+
for (;;) {
struct msg_sender s;
err = -EACCES;
if (ipcperms(ns, &msq->q_perm, S_IWUGO))
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
err = security_msg_queue_msgsnd(msq, msg, msgflg);
if (err)
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
if (msgsz + msq->q_cbytes <= msq->q_qbytes &&
1 + msq->q_qnum <= msq->q_qbytes) {
@@ -699,10 +701,9 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
/* queue full, wait: */
if (msgflg & IPC_NOWAIT) {
err = -EAGAIN;
- goto out_unlock1;
+ goto out_unlock0;
}
- ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
ss_add(msq, &s);
if (!ipc_rcu_getref(msq)) {
@@ -730,10 +731,7 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
goto out_unlock0;
}
- ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
}
-
- ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
msq->q_lspid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
msq->q_stime = get_seconds();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/ipc-msg.c-fix-lost-wakeup-in-msgsnd.patch
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