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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning in the reading of user keys
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:36:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421163634.14538.74339.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)

Fix an RCU warning in the reading of user keys:

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
security/keys/user_defined.c:202 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by keyctl/3637:
 #0:  (&key->sem){+++++.}, at: [<ffffffff811a80ae>] keyctl_read_key+0x9c/0xcf

stack backtrace:
Pid: 3637, comm: keyctl Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-cachefs #18
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81051f6c>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [<ffffffff811aa55f>] user_read+0x47/0x91
 [<ffffffff811a80be>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
 [<ffffffff811a8a06>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb7
 [<ffffffff81001eeb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 security/keys/user_defined.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/user_defined.c b/security/keys/user_defined.c
index 7c687d5..e9aa079 100644
--- a/security/keys/user_defined.c
+++ b/security/keys/user_defined.c
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ long user_read(const struct key *key, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen)
 	struct user_key_payload *upayload;
 	long ret;
 
-	upayload = rcu_dereference(key->payload.data);
+	upayload = rcu_dereference_protected(
+		key->payload.data, rwsem_is_locked(&((struct key *)key)->sem));
 	ret = upayload->datalen;
 
 	/* we can return the data as is */


             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-21 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21 16:36 David Howells [this message]
2010-04-21 20:12 ` Paul E. McKenney

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