mm: fix hugetlb bug due to user_shm_unlock call
authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:30:28 +0000 (16:30 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:53:01 +0000 (12:53 -0700)
2.6.30's commit 8a0bdec194c21c8fdef840989d0d7b742bb5d4bc removed
user_shm_lock() calls in hugetlb_file_setup() but left the
user_shm_unlock call in shm_destroy().

In detail:
Assume that can_do_hugetlb_shm() returns true and hence user_shm_lock()
is not called in hugetlb_file_setup(). However, user_shm_unlock() is
called in any case in shm_destroy() and in the following
atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count) in free_uid() is executed and if
up->__count gets zero, also cleanup_user_struct() is scheduled.

Note that sched_destroy_user() is empty if CONFIG_USER_SCHED is not set.
However, the ref counter up->__count gets unexpectedly non-positive and
the corresponding structs are freed even though there are live
references to them, resulting in a kernel oops after a lots of
shmget(SHM_HUGETLB)/shmctl(IPC_RMID) cycles and CONFIG_USER_SCHED set.

Hugh changed Stefan's suggested patch: can_do_hugetlb_shm() at the
time of shm_destroy() may give a different answer from at the time
of hugetlb_file_setup().  And fixed newseg()'s no_id error path,
which has missed user_shm_unlock() ever since it came in 2.6.9.

Reported-by: Stefan Huber <shuber2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Tested-by: Stefan Huber <shuber2@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
include/linux/hugetlb.h
ipc/shm.c

index 941c842..cb88dac 100644 (file)
@@ -935,26 +935,28 @@ static int can_do_hugetlb_shm(void)
        return capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) || in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group);
 }
 
-struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag)
+struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag,
+                                               struct user_struct **user)
 {
        int error = -ENOMEM;
-       int unlock_shm = 0;
        struct file *file;
        struct inode *inode;
        struct dentry *dentry, *root;
        struct qstr quick_string;
-       struct user_struct *user = current_user();
 
+       *user = NULL;
        if (!hugetlbfs_vfsmount)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
        if (!can_do_hugetlb_shm()) {
-               if (user_shm_lock(size, user)) {
-                       unlock_shm = 1;
+               *user = current_user();
+               if (user_shm_lock(size, *user)) {
                        WARN_ONCE(1,
                          "Using mlock ulimits for SHM_HUGETLB deprecated\n");
-               } else
+               } else {
+                       *user = NULL;
                        return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+               }
        }
 
        root = hugetlbfs_vfsmount->mnt_root;
@@ -996,8 +998,10 @@ out_inode:
 out_dentry:
        dput(dentry);
 out_shm_unlock:
-       if (unlock_shm)
-               user_shm_unlock(size, user);
+       if (*user) {
+               user_shm_unlock(size, *user);
+               *user = NULL;
+       }
        return ERR_PTR(error);
 }
 
index 2723513..5cbc620 100644 (file)
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 struct ctl_table;
+struct user_struct;
 
 int PageHuge(struct page *page);
 
@@ -146,7 +147,8 @@ static inline struct hugetlbfs_sb_info *HUGETLBFS_SB(struct super_block *sb)
 
 extern const struct file_operations hugetlbfs_file_operations;
 extern struct vm_operations_struct hugetlb_vm_ops;
-struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t, int);
+struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acct,
+                                               struct user_struct **user);
 int hugetlb_get_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);
 void hugetlb_put_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);
 
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ static inline void set_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
 
 #define is_file_hugepages(file)                        0
 #define set_file_hugepages(file)               BUG()
-#define hugetlb_file_setup(name,size,acctflag) ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS)
+#define hugetlb_file_setup(name,size,acct,user)        ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS)
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
index 15dd238..1bc4701 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static void shm_destroy(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct shmid_kernel *shp)
        shm_unlock(shp);
        if (!is_file_hugepages(shp->shm_file))
                shmem_lock(shp->shm_file, 0, shp->mlock_user);
-       else
+       else if (shp->mlock_user)
                user_shm_unlock(shp->shm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_size,
                                                shp->mlock_user);
        fput (shp->shm_file);
@@ -369,8 +369,8 @@ static int newseg(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_params *params)
                /* hugetlb_file_setup applies strict accounting */
                if (shmflg & SHM_NORESERVE)
                        acctflag = VM_NORESERVE;
-               file = hugetlb_file_setup(name, size, acctflag);
-               shp->mlock_user = current_user();
+               file = hugetlb_file_setup(name, size, acctflag,
+                                                       &shp->mlock_user);
        } else {
                /*
                 * Do not allow no accounting for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER, even
@@ -410,6 +410,8 @@ static int newseg(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_params *params)
        return error;
 
 no_id:
+       if (shp->mlock_user)    /* shmflg & SHM_HUGETLB case */
+               user_shm_unlock(size, shp->mlock_user);
        fput(file);
 no_file:
        security_shm_free(shp);