From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Fix mmap bugs with sysfs_remove_bin_file
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:55:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1aanc3l3e.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
While reviewing the sysfs mmap code in fs/sysfs/bin.c I found two
rather nasty potential issues.
The first is if one of our wrapped mmap implementations implements
vma->close() we do not call it at sysfs_remove_bin_file time leading
to who knows what carnage.
The second is that we are potentially accessing the wrapped vm_ops
after sysfs_remove_bin_file has completed. Which could be a problem
if it is a modular user.
I don't know of any real world instances of problems. None of the
bin attribute mmaps functions that I know of today implement a close
method. However it seems prudent to fix these now before we have
track down some mysterious weird failure with hotunplug.
Eric W. Biederman (2):
sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented.
sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock
---
fs/sysfs/bin.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 7:55 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-09-20 7:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-22 19:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-22 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-22 19:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-22 21:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
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