linux-kernel - [PATCH 16/20] ipc: Move atomic

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Message-Id: <20170525185107.12869-17-manfred@colorfullife.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 20:51:03 +0200
From:   Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
To:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 1vier1@....de,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, mingo@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, fabf@...net.be,
        Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Subject: [PATCH 16/20] ipc: Move atomic_set() to where it is needed

From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Only after ipc_addid() has succeeded will refcounting be used, so
move initialization into ipc_addid() and remove from open-coded
*_alloc() routines.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
---
 ipc/msg.c  | 2 --
 ipc/sem.c  | 1 -
 ipc/shm.c  | 2 --
 ipc/util.c | 1 +
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index cd90bfd..770342e 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -117,8 +117,6 @@ static struct msg_queue *msg_alloc(void)
 	if (unlikely(!msq))
 		return NULL;
 
-	atomic_set(&msq->q_perm.refcount, 1);
-
 	return msq;
 }
 
diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index 2b2ed56..5f13773 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -465,7 +465,6 @@ static struct sem_array *sem_alloc(size_t nsems)
 		return NULL;
 
 	memset(sma, 0, size);
-	atomic_set(&sma->sem_perm.refcount, 1);
 
 	return sma;
 }
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index cb1d97e..b85db5a 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -526,8 +526,6 @@ static struct shmid_kernel *shm_alloc(void)
 	if (unlikely(!shp))
 		return NULL;
 
-	atomic_set(&shp->shm_perm.refcount, 1);
-
 	return shp;
 }
 
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 2428dd4..1a2cb02 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ int ipc_addid(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *new, int size)
 
 	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
 
+	atomic_set(&new->refcount, 1);
 	spin_lock_init(&new->lock);
 	new->deleted = false;
 	rcu_read_lock();
-- 
2.9.3