Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] locks: prevent side-effects of locks_release_private before file_lock is initialized

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:50:48PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> When calling fcntl(F_SETLEASE) for a second time on the same file descriptor,
> do_fcntl_add_lease will allocate and initialize a new file_lock to pass to
> __vfs_setlease. If that function decides to reuse the existing file_lock, it
> will free the newly allocated one to prevent leaking memory.
> 
> However, the newly allocate file_lock was initialized with a valid file
> descriptor pointer and fl_lmops that contains a lm_release_private function,
> so calling locks_free_lock will trigger a call to lease_release_private_callback
> which will clear the fcntl(F_SETOWN) and fcntl(F_SETSIG) settings for the file
> descriptor even though the lease is not really being cleared at that point (as
> only the temporary file_lock is being freed.)
> 
> This patch will fix this bug by calling kmem_cache_free directly instead of
> locks_free_lock if the file_lock will not be used. This will end up avoiding
> the call to lease_release_private_callback.
> 
> This bug was tracked in kernel.org Bugzilla database:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43336
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/locks.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 814c51d..2a751d8 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -473,7 +473,10 @@ static struct file_lock *lease_alloc(struct file *filp, int type)
>  
>  	error = lease_init(filp, type, fl);
>  	if (error) {
> -		locks_free_lock(fl);
> +		/* Free the lock by hand instead of calling locks_free_lock
> +		 * to prevent the call back to lease_release_private_callback
> +		 */
> +		kmem_cache_free(filelock_cache, fl);
>  		return ERR_PTR(error);
>  	}
>  	return fl;
> @@ -1538,19 +1541,28 @@ static int do_fcntl_add_lease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, long arg)
>  
>  	new = fasync_alloc();
>  	if (!new) {
> -		locks_free_lock(fl);
> +		/* Free the lock by hand instead of calling locks_free_lock
> +		 * to prevent the call back to lease_release_private_callback
> +		 */
> +		kmem_cache_free(filelock_cache, fl);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  	ret = fl;
>  	lock_flocks();
>  	error = __vfs_setlease(filp, arg, &ret);
> +	if (error || ret != fl)
> +		/*
> +		 * Free the lock by hand instead of calling locks_free_lock
> +		 * to prevent the call back to lease_release_private_callback
> +		 * which will unset F_SETOWN and F_SETSIG for the file
> +		 * descriptor but that is not wanted as the lease was not
> +		 * really in use.
> +		 */
> +		kmem_cache_free(filelock_cache, fl);

Ugh, and now we end up with essentially the same comment in 3 different
places.  So maybe marking the lock somehow *was* the better idea.

--b.

>  	if (error) {
>  		unlock_flocks();
> -		locks_free_lock(fl);
>  		goto out_free_fasync;
>  	}
> -	if (ret != fl)
> -		locks_free_lock(fl);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * fasync_insert_entry() returns the old entry if any.
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
>