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Message-Id: <1297537415-29535-1-git-send-email-nelhage@ksplice.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:03:35 -0500
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
security@...nel.org, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>
Subject: [PATCH] epoll: Prevent creating circular epoll structures.
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
On insert, check whether the inserted file is itself a struct epoll, and if so,
do a recursive walk to detect whether inserting this file would create a loop of
epoll structures, which could lead to deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
[nelhage@...lice.com: Use epmutex to serialize concurrent inserts]
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>
---
fs/eventpoll.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index cc8a9b7..d159cb7 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@
* cleanup path and it is also acquired by eventpoll_release_file()
* if a file has been pushed inside an epoll set and it is then
* close()d without a previous call toepoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL).
+ * It is also acquired when inserting an epoll fd onto another epoll
+ * fd. We do this so that we walk the epoll tree and ensure that this
+ * insertion does not create a cycle of epoll file descriptors, which
+ * could lead to deadlock. We need a global mutex to prevent two
+ * simultaneous inserts (A into B and B into A) from racing and
+ * constructing a cycle without either insert observing that it is
+ * going to.
* It is possible to drop the "ep->mtx" and to use the global
* mutex "epmutex" (together with "ep->lock") to have it working,
* but having "ep->mtx" will make the interface more scalable.
@@ -224,6 +231,9 @@ static long max_user_watches __read_mostly;
*/
static DEFINE_MUTEX(epmutex);
+/* Used to check for epoll file descriptor inclusion loops */
+static struct nested_calls poll_loop_ncalls;
+
/* Used for safe wake up implementation */
static struct nested_calls poll_safewake_ncalls;
@@ -1188,6 +1198,62 @@ retry:
return res;
}
+/**
+ * ep_loop_check_proc - Callback function to be passed to the @ep_call_nested()
+ * API, to verify that adding an epoll file inside another
+ * epoll structure, does not violate the constraints, in
+ * terms of closed loops, or too deep chains (which can
+ * result in excessive stack usage).
+ *
+ * @priv: Pointer to the epoll file to be currently checked.
+ * @cookie: Original cookie for this call. This is the top-of-the-chain epoll
+ * data structure pointer.
+ * @call_nests: Current dept of the @ep_call_nested() call stack.
+ *
+ * Returns: Returns zero if adding the epoll @file inside current epoll
+ * structure @ep does not violate the constraints, or -1 otherwise.
+ */
+static int ep_loop_check_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
+{
+ int error = 0;
+ struct file *file = priv;
+ struct eventpoll *ep = file->private_data;
+ struct rb_node *rbp;
+ struct epitem *epi;
+
+ mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
+ for (rbp = rb_first(&ep->rbr); rbp; rbp = rb_next(rbp)) {
+ epi = rb_entry(rbp, struct epitem, rbn);
+ if (unlikely(is_file_epoll(epi->ffd.file))) {
+ error = ep_call_nested(&poll_loop_ncalls, EP_MAX_NESTS,
+ ep_loop_check_proc, epi->ffd.file,
+ epi->ffd.file->private_data, current);
+ if (error != 0)
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);
+
+ return error;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ep_loop_check - Performs a check to verify that adding an epoll file (@file)
+ * another epoll file (represented by @ep) does not create
+ * closed loops or too deep chains.
+ *
+ * @ep: Pointer to the epoll private data structure.
+ * @file: Pointer to the epoll file to be checked.
+ *
+ * Returns: Returns zero if adding the epoll @file inside current epoll
+ * structure @ep does not violate the constraints, or -1 otherwise.
+ */
+static int ep_loop_check(struct eventpoll *ep, struct file *file)
+{
+ return ep_call_nested(&poll_loop_ncalls, EP_MAX_NESTS,
+ ep_loop_check_proc, file, ep, current);
+}
+
/*
* Open an eventpoll file descriptor.
*/
@@ -1236,6 +1302,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
struct epoll_event __user *, event)
{
int error;
+ int did_lock_epmutex = 0;
struct file *file, *tfile;
struct eventpoll *ep;
struct epitem *epi;
@@ -1277,6 +1344,25 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
*/
ep = file->private_data;
+ /*
+ * When we insert an epoll file descriptor, inside another epoll file
+ * descriptor, there is the change of creating closed loops, which are
+ * better be handled here, than in more critical paths.
+ *
+ * We hold epmutex across the loop check and the insert in this case, in
+ * order to prevent two separate inserts from racing and each doing the
+ * insert "at the same time" such that ep_loop_check passes on both
+ * before either one does the insert, thereby creating a cycle.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(is_file_epoll(tfile) && op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD)) {
+ mutex_lock(&epmutex);
+ did_lock_epmutex = 1;
+ error = -ELOOP;
+ if (ep_loop_check(ep, tfile) != 0)
+ goto error_tgt_fput;
+ }
+
+
mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
/*
@@ -1312,6 +1398,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);
error_tgt_fput:
+ if (unlikely(did_lock_epmutex))
+ mutex_unlock(&epmutex);
+
fput(tfile);
error_fput:
fput(file);
@@ -1431,6 +1520,12 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void)
EP_ITEM_COST;
BUG_ON(max_user_watches < 0);
+ /*
+ * Initialize the structure used to perform epoll file descriptor
+ * inclusion loops checks.
+ */
+ ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_loop_ncalls);
+
/* Initialize the structure used to perform safe poll wait head wake ups */
ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_safewake_ncalls);
--
1.7.2.43.g36c08.dirty
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