[PATCH] fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task

Pavel Tikhomirov
2021-02-03T12:59:28Z

Currently there is no way to differentiate the file with alive owner
from the file with dead owner but pid of the owner reused. That's why
CRIU can't actually know if it needs to restore file owner or not,
because if it restores owner but actual owner was dead, this can
introduce unexpected signals to the "false"-owner (which reused the
pid).

Let's change the api, so that F_GETOWN(EX) returns 0 in case actual
owner is dead already.

Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
---
fs/fcntl.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 05b36b28f2e8..483ef8861376 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -148,11 +148,15 @@ void f_delown(struct file *filp)

pid_t f_getown(struct file *filp)
{
- pid_t pid;
+ pid_t pid = 0;
read_lock(&filp->f_owner.lock);
- pid = pid_vnr(filp->f_owner.pid);
- if (filp->f_owner.pid_type == PIDTYPE_PGID)
- pid = -pid;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (pid_task(filp->f_owner.pid, filp->f_owner.pid_type)) {
+ pid = pid_vnr(filp->f_owner.pid);
+ if (filp->f_owner.pid_type == PIDTYPE_PGID)
+ pid = -pid;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
read_unlock(&filp->f_owner.lock);
return pid;
}
@@ -200,11 +204,14 @@ static int f_setown_ex(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
static int f_getown_ex(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
{
struct f_owner_ex __user *owner_p = (void __user *)arg;
- struct f_owner_ex owner;
+ struct f_owner_ex owner = {};
int ret = 0;

read_lock(&filp->f_owner.lock);
- owner.pid = pid_vnr(filp->f_owner.pid);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (pid_task(filp->f_owner.pid, filp->f_owner.pid_type))
+ owner.pid = pid_vnr(filp->f_owner.pid);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
switch (filp->f_owner.pid_type) {
case PIDTYPE_PID:
owner.type = F_OWNER_TID;
--
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