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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Michael A. Halcrow" <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptFS: mutex lock-unlock ordering fix
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:42:17 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520164217.GB6926@cvg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080520163928.GA6926@cvg>

[Cyrill Gorcunov - Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:39:28PM +0400]
| We should lock/unlock mutexes by a proper way which means
| there should not be chains like ABAB but ABBA otherwise the
| race window is opened.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
| CC: Michael A. Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
| ---
| 
|  check_list:
[...]
|  	if (list_empty(&daemon->msg_ctx_out_queue)) {
NIT ---> | +		if (mutex_is_locked(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux))
| +			mutex_unlock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
|  		mutex_unlock(&daemon->mux);
| -		rc = wait_event_interruptible(
| -			daemon->wait, !list_empty(&daemon->msg_ctx_out_queue));
| +		rc = wait_event_interruptible(daemon->wait,
| +			!list_empty(&daemon->msg_ctx_out_queue));
|  		mutex_lock(&daemon->mux);
|  		if (rc < 0) {
|  			rc = 0;
| @@ -357,6 +358,8 @@ out_unlock_msg_ctx:
|  out_unlock_daemon:
|  	daemon->flags &= ~ECRYPTFS_DAEMON_IN_READ;
|  	mutex_unlock(&daemon->mux);
| +	if (mutex_is_locked(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux))
| +		mutex_unlock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
|  	return rc;
|  }
|  

It's a bit wrong (could release mutex being ack'ed by another thread)
will fix - please DROP this patch. Sorry!

		- Cyrill -

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 16:39 [PATCH] eCryptFS: mutex lock-unlock ordering fix Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-20 16:42 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]

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