linux/ipc
Manfred Spraul bebcb928c8 ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd().
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@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # for 3.11
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-03 10:42:56 -07:00
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compat_mq.c ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
compat.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id 2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00
ipcns_notifier.c
Makefile Add generic sys_ipc wrapper 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
mq_sysctl.c mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
mqueue.c audit: fix mq_open and mq_unlink to add the MQ root as a hidden parent audit_names record 2013-07-09 10:33:19 -07:00
msg.c ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd(). 2013-09-03 10:42:56 -07:00
msgutil.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
namespace.c proc: Split the namespace stuff out into linux/proc_ns.h 2013-05-01 17:29:39 -04:00
sem.c ipc/sem.c: rename try_atomic_semop() to perform_atomic_semop(), docu update 2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
shm.c ipc: move locking out of ipcctl_pre_down_nolock 2013-07-09 10:33:27 -07:00
syscall.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
util.c ipc/util.c, ipc_rcu_alloc: cacheline align allocation 2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
util.h ipc: close open coded spin lock calls 2013-07-09 10:33:27 -07:00