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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	stable-review@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [06/11] tty: fix race in tty_fasync
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:11:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001261357390.3574@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bpggy7bt.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>



On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> Only that __f_setown by way of f_modown unconditionally enables interrupts.  So
> without touching f_modown as well in mainline we have nasty sounding lockdep warnings.

Hmm. That seems to be true in mainline too, isn't it?

So now we have:
 - tty_fasync() gets tty->ctrl_lock, with spin_lock_irqsave()

 - it then calls __f_setown()

 - which calls f_modown(),

 - which does

	write_lock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
	..
	write_unlock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);

   which in turn enables interrupts while we still hold ctrl_lock.

so that whole commit 70362511806 was/is buggy in mainline too. 

The minimal fix is likely to just make f_modown() use 
write_lock_irqsave/restore. Greg?

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26 19:17 [00/11] 2.6.27.45 review Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [01/11] edac: i5000_edac critical fix panic out of bounds Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [02/11] [SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs poll_mode_io world writeable permissions Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [03/11] reiserfs: truncate blocks not used by a write Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [04/11] ecryptfs: initialize private persistent file before dereferencing pointer Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [05/11] ecryptfs: use after free Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [06/11] tty: fix race in tty_fasync Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:49   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-26 22:11     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-01-26 23:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-26 23:04       ` Greg KH
2010-01-27  1:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-27  1:47           ` Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [07/11] USB: add missing delay during remote wakeup Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [08/11] USB: EHCI: fix handling of unusual interrupt intervals Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [09/11] USB: EHCI & UHCI: fix race between root-hub suspend and port resume Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [10/11] ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr) Greg KH
2010-01-26 19:14 ` [11/11] KVM: S390: fix potential array overrun in intercept handling Greg KH

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