Fix race in tty_fasync() properly

80e1e823 · Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> · 2010-02-07 10:11:23 -08:00

This reverts commit 703625118069 ("tty: fix race in tty_fasync") and
commit b04da8bfdfbb ("fnctl: f_modown should call write_lock_irqsave/
restore") that tried to fix up some of the fallout but was incomplete.

It turns out that we really cannot hold 'tty->ctrl_lock' over calling
__f_setown, because not only did that cause problems with interrupt
disables (which the second commit fixed), it also causes a potential
ABBA deadlock due to lock ordering.

Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for following up on the issue, and running
lockdep to show the problem.  It goes roughly like this:

 - f_getown gets filp->f_owner.lock for reading without interrupts
   disabled, so an interrupt that happens while that lock is held can
   cause a lockdep chain from f_owner.lock -> sighand->siglock.

 - at the same time, the tty->ctrl_lock -> f_owner.lock chain that
   commit 703625118069 introduced, together with the pre-existing
   sighand->siglock -> tty->ctrl_lock chain means that we have a lock
   dependency the other way too.

So instead of extending tty->ctrl_lock over the whole __f_setown() call,
we now just take a reference to the 'pid' structure while holding the
lock, and then release it after having done the __f_setown.  That still
guarantees that 'struct pid' won't go away from under us, which is all
we really ever needed.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Américo Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: 80e1e823989ec44d8e35bdfddadbddcffec90424
Parents: 29275254

Changes

2 files changed · +5 −5

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
drivers/char/tty_io.c	modified	+3	−1	View file
fs/fcntl.c	modified	+2	−4	View file

drivers/char/tty_io.c

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diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index c6f3b48..dcb9083 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1951,8 +1951,10 @@ static int tty_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on)
 			pid = task_pid(current);
 			type = PIDTYPE_PID;
 		}
-		retval = __f_setown(filp, pid, type, 0);
+		get_pid(pid);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
+		retval = __f_setown(filp, pid, type, 0);
+		put_pid(pid);
 		if (retval)
 			goto out;
 	} else {

fs/fcntl.c

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diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 5ef953e..97e01dc 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -199,9 +199,7 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
 static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
                      int force)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	write_lock_irqsave(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags);
+	write_lock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
 	if (force || !filp->f_owner.pid) {
 		put_pid(filp->f_owner.pid);
 		filp->f_owner.pid = get_pid(pid);
@@ -213,7 +211,7 @@ static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
 			filp->f_owner.euid = cred->euid;
 		}
 	}
-	write_unlock_irqrestore(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags);
+	write_unlock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
 }
 
 int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,