Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2009-08-10
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[PATCH V2] futex: Fix handling of bad requeue syscall pairing

From: Darren Hart <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-07 22:21:00
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

From: Darren Hart <redacted>

If futex_requeue(requeue_pi=1) finds a futex_q that was created by a call
other the futex_wait_requeue_pi(), the q.rt_waiter may be null.  If so,
this will result in an oops from the following call graph:

futex_requeue()
  rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
    task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
      waiter->task dereference
        OOPS

We currently WARN_ON() if this is detected, clearly this is inadequate.
If we detect a mispairing in futex_requeue(), bail out, seding -EINVAL to
user-space.

V2: Fix parenthesis warnings.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <redacted>
CC: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
CC: Dinakar Guniguntala <redacted>
CC: John Stultz <redacted>
---

 kernel/futex.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index df30983..4705d89 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1306,8 +1306,15 @@ retry_private:
 		if (!match_futex(&this->key, &key1))
 			continue;
 
-		WARN_ON(!requeue_pi && this->rt_waiter);
-		WARN_ON(requeue_pi && !this->rt_waiter);
+		/*
+		 * FUTEX_WAIT_REQEUE_PI and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI should always
+		 * be paired with each other and no other futex ops.
+		 */
+		if ((requeue_pi && !this->rt_waiter) ||
+		    (!requeue_pi && this->rt_waiter)) {
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Wake nr_wake waiters.  For requeue_pi, if we acquired the
-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team
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