linux-ext4 - [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:12:15 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner

The rwsem code overloads the owner field with either a task struct or
negative magic numbers.  Add a quick hack to catch these negative
values early on.  Without this spinning on a writer that replaced the
owner with RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, rwsem_spin_on_owner can crash while
deferencing the task_struct ->on_cpu field of a -8 value.

XXX: This might be a bit of a hack as the code otherwise doesn't use
the ERR_PTR family macros, better suggestions welcome.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index 44e68761f432..6adc719a30a1 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -725,6 +725,8 @@ rwsem_spin_on_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem, unsigned long nonspinnable)
 	state = rwsem_owner_state(owner, flags, nonspinnable);
 	if (state != OWNER_WRITER)
 		return state;
+	if (IS_ERR(owner))
+		return state;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	for (;;) {
-- 
2.24.1