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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:44:05 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC] ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
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On 07/04, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 17:08 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 06/22, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > >
> > > +void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct nsproxy *nsp = task->nsproxy;
> > > +	struct ipc_namespace *ns;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!nsp)
> > > +		return;
> > > +	ns = nsp->ipc_ns;
> > > +	if (!ns || !ns->shm_rmid_forced)
> >
> > This looks confusing, imho. How it is possible that ->nsproxy or
> > ->ipc_ns is NULL?
>
> I spotted the same checking logic in other places.  I don't know whether
> it is redundant, I guess it can happen when the namespace is dying.
> Probably it cannot happed inside of task do_exit(), only for extern
> observers.

No, afaics it can't happen in do_exit() until we call exit_notify().
Otherwise, for example, any dying child will OOPS in do_notify_parent().
Or please look at exit_sem()->sem_lock_check(tsk->nsproxy->ipc_ns).

Oleg.