linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 repost] posix-cpu-timers: fix nanosleep task_struct leak
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:08:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130215100810.GF4392@redhat.com> (raw)

In do_cpu_nanosleep() we do posic_cpu_timer_create(), but forgot
corresponding posix_cpu_timer_del() what lead to task_struct leak.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
v1 -> v2: add comments

This looks like DoS problem fix, since it's possible to eat kernel
memory (very slowly though) by normal user, hence Cc stable.

 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index a278cad..942ca27 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1401,8 +1401,10 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
 		while (!signal_pending(current)) {
 			if (timer.it.cpu.expires.sched == 0) {
 				/*
-				 * Our timer fired and was reset.
+				 * Our timer fired and was reset, below
+				 * deletion can not fail.
 				 */
+				posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
 				spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
 				return 0;
 			}
@@ -1420,9 +1422,26 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
 		 * We were interrupted by a signal.
 		 */
 		sample_to_timespec(which_clock, timer.it.cpu.expires, rqtp);
-		posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it);
+		error = posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it);
+		if (!error) {
+			/*
+			 * Timer is now unarmed, deletion can not fail.
+			 */
+			posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
+		}
 		spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
 
+		while (error == TIMER_RETRY) {
+			/*
+			 * We need to handle case when timer was or is in the
+			 * middle of firing. In other cases we already freed
+			 * resources.
+			 */
+			spin_lock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
+			error = posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
+			spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
+		}
+
 		if ((it->it_value.tv_sec | it->it_value.tv_nsec) == 0) {
 			/*
 			 * It actually did fire already.
-- 
1.7.11.7

             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-15 10:08 Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2013-02-15 10:54 ` [tip:timers/core] posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak tip-bot for Stanislaw Gruszka

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20130215100810.GF4392@redhat.com \
    --to=sgruszka@redhat.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=davej@redhat.com \
    --cc=john.stultz@linaro.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=oleg@redhat.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=tt.rantala@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).