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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2009-11-02 13:01:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-08 10:21:16 -0800 |
| commit | 02caa6be73dbeacafbfa98ecaa39b1dab7d84eb6 (patch) | |
| tree | f8a9edad516bbfff239a17e7376dca9dca4776b3 | |
| parent | 7b9acdf264761c1a8fdd3696a04e3a47d3a44e23 (diff) | |
uids: Prevent tear down race
commit b00bc0b237055b4c45816325ee14f0bd83e6f590 upstream.
Ingo triggered the following warning:
WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:255 debug_print_object+0x42/0x50()
Hardware name: System Product Name
ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2619, comm: dmesg Tainted: G W 2.6.32-rc5-tip+ #5298
Call Trace:
[<81035443>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
[<8120e483>] ? debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
[<81035498>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
[<8120e483>] debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
[<8120ec2a>] __debug_object_init+0x279/0x2d7
[<8120ecb3>] debug_object_init+0x13/0x18
[<810409d2>] init_timer_key+0x17/0x6f
[<81041526>] free_uid+0x50/0x6c
[<8104ed2d>] put_cred_rcu+0x61/0x72
[<81067fac>] rcu_do_batch+0x70/0x121
debugobjects warns about an enqueued timer being initialized. If
CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y the user management code uses delayed work to
remove the user from the hash table and tear down the sysfs objects.
free_uid is called from RCU and initializes/schedules delayed work if
the usage count of the user_struct is 0. The init/schedule happens
outside of the uidhash_lock protected region which allows a concurrent
caller of find_user() to reference the about to be destroyed
user_struct w/o preventing the work from being scheduled. If the next
free_uid call happens before the work timer expired then the active
timer is initialized and the work scheduled again.
The race was introduced in commit 5cb350ba (sched: group scheduling,
sysfs tunables) and made more prominent by commit 3959214f (sched:
delayed cleanup of user_struct)
Move the init/schedule_delayed_work inside of the uidhash_lock
protected region to prevent the race.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 2c000e7132ac..46d0165ca70c 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -330,9 +330,9 @@ done: */ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct); schedule_delayed_work(&up->work, msecs_to_jiffies(1000)); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); } #else /* CONFIG_USER_SCHED && CONFIG_SYSFS */ |