linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] userns: Don't read extents twice in m

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Message-ID: <87k1zaswu6.fsf_-_@xmission.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:48:17 -0500
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, serge@...lyn.com, tycho@...ho.ws,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] userns: Don't read extents twice in m_start


This is important so reading /proc/<pid>/{uid_map,gid_map,projid_map} while
the map is being written does not do strange things.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/user_namespace.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 563a2981d7c7..4f7e357ac1e2 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -683,11 +683,13 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *ppos,
 		     struct uid_gid_map *map)
 {
 	loff_t pos = *ppos;
+	unsigned extents = map->nr_extents;
+	smp_rmb();
 
-	if (pos >= map->nr_extents)
+	if (pos >= extents)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (map->nr_extents <= UID_GID_MAP_MAX_BASE_EXTENTS)
+	if (extents <= UID_GID_MAP_MAX_BASE_EXTENTS)
 		return &map->extent[pos];
 
 	return &map->forward[pos];
-- 
2.14.1