This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl 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-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.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 2caacaa82a51b78fc0c800e206473874094287ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:26:21 -0700 Subject: ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx> commit 2caacaa82a51b78fc0c800e206473874094287ed upstream. With the *_INFO, *_STAT, IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands already optimized, deal with the remaining SHM_LOCK and SHM_UNLOCK commands. Take the shm_perm lock after doing the initial auditing and security checks. The rest of the logic remains unchanged. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/shm.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) --- a/ipc/shm.c +++ b/ipc/shm.c @@ -947,10 +947,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(shmctl, int, shmid, int, int err, version; struct ipc_namespace *ns; - if (cmd < 0 || shmid < 0) { - err = -EINVAL; - goto out; - } + if (cmd < 0 || shmid < 0) + return -EINVAL; version = ipc_parse_version(&cmd); ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns; @@ -961,36 +959,40 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(shmctl, int, shmid, int, case SHM_STAT: case IPC_STAT: return shmctl_nolock(ns, shmid, cmd, version, buf); + case IPC_RMID: + case IPC_SET: + return shmctl_down(ns, shmid, cmd, buf, version); case SHM_LOCK: case SHM_UNLOCK: { struct file *shm_file; - shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid); + rcu_read_lock(); + shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid); if (IS_ERR(shp)) { err = PTR_ERR(shp); - goto out; + goto out_unlock1; } audit_ipc_obj(&(shp->shm_perm)); + err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd); + if (err) + goto out_unlock1; + ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm); if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_IPC_LOCK)) { kuid_t euid = current_euid(); err = -EPERM; if (!uid_eq(euid, shp->shm_perm.uid) && !uid_eq(euid, shp->shm_perm.cuid)) - goto out_unlock; + goto out_unlock0; if (cmd == SHM_LOCK && !rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK)) - goto out_unlock; + goto out_unlock0; } - err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd); - if (err) - goto out_unlock; - shm_file = shp->shm_file; if (is_file_hugepages(shm_file)) - goto out_unlock; + goto out_unlock0; if (cmd == SHM_LOCK) { struct user_struct *user = current_user(); @@ -999,32 +1001,31 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(shmctl, int, shmid, int, shp->shm_perm.mode |= SHM_LOCKED; shp->mlock_user = user; } - goto out_unlock; + goto out_unlock0; } /* SHM_UNLOCK */ if (!(shp->shm_perm.mode & SHM_LOCKED)) - goto out_unlock; + goto out_unlock0; shmem_lock(shm_file, 0, shp->mlock_user); shp->shm_perm.mode &= ~SHM_LOCKED; shp->mlock_user = NULL; get_file(shm_file); - shm_unlock(shp); + ipc_unlock_object(&shp->shm_perm); + rcu_read_unlock(); shmem_unlock_mapping(shm_file->f_mapping); + fput(shm_file); - goto out; - } - case IPC_RMID: - case IPC_SET: - err = shmctl_down(ns, shmid, cmd, buf, version); return err; + } default: return -EINVAL; } -out_unlock: - shm_unlock(shp); -out: +out_unlock0: + ipc_unlock_object(&shp->shm_perm); +out_unlock1: + rcu_read_unlock(); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx are queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-in-shmctl_down.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmat.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-shmctl_nolock.patch queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-cleanup-do_shmat-pasta.patch queue-3.11/ipc-shm-make-shmctl_nolock-lockless.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html