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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] audit: Call tty_audit_push_task() outside preempt disabled region
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:37:35 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912011608070.24119@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911301443110.2872@localhost.localdomain>

While auditing all tasklist_lock read_lock sites I stumbled over the
following call chain:

audit_prepare_user_tty()
  read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
  tty_audit_push_task();
     mutex_lock(&buf->mutex);

     --> buf->mutex is locked with preemption disabled.

Solve this by acquiring a reference to the task struct under
rcu_read_lock and call tty_audit_push_task outside of the preempt
disabled region.

Move all code which needs to be protected by sighand lock into
tty_audit_push_task() and use lock/unlock_sighand as we do not hold
tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/char/tty_audit.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/linux/tty.h      |    8 ++++----
 kernel/audit.c           |   25 +++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
@@ -188,25 +188,38 @@ void tty_audit_tiocsti(struct tty_struct
 }
 
 /**
- *	tty_audit_push_task	-	Flush task's pending audit data
+ * tty_audit_push_task	-	Flush task's pending audit data
+ * @tsk:		task pointer
+ * @loginuid:		sender login uid
+ * @sessionid:		sender session id
+ *
+ * Called with a ref on @tsk held. Try to lock sighand and get a
+ * reference to the tty audit buffer if available.
+ * Flush the buffer or return an appropriate error code.
  */
-void tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk, uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid)
+int tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk, uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid)
 {
-	struct tty_audit_buf *buf;
+	struct tty_audit_buf *buf = NULL;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
-	buf = tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf;
-	if (buf)
+	if (!lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags))
+		return -ESRCH;
+
+	if (tsk->signal->audit_tty && tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf) {
+		buf = tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf;
 		atomic_inc(&buf->count);
-	spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+	}
+	unlock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags);
+
 	if (!buf)
-		return;
+		return -EPERM;
 
 	mutex_lock(&buf->mutex);
 	tty_audit_buf_push(tsk, loginuid, sessionid, buf);
 	mutex_unlock(&buf->mutex);
 
 	tty_audit_buf_put(buf);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
Index: linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/tty.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/include/linux/tty.h
+++ linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ extern void tty_audit_exit(void);
 extern void tty_audit_fork(struct signal_struct *sig);
 extern void tty_audit_tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch);
 extern void tty_audit_push(struct tty_struct *tty);
-extern void tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
-					uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid);
+extern int tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
+			       uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid);
 #else
 static inline void tty_audit_add_data(struct tty_struct *tty,
 				      unsigned char *data, size_t size)
@@ -513,8 +513,8 @@ static inline void tty_audit_fork(struct
 static inline void tty_audit_push(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 }
-static inline void tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
-					uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid)
+static inline int tty_audit_push_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
+				      uid_t loginuid, u32 sessionid)
 {
 }
 #endif
Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/audit.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/audit.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/audit.c
@@ -467,23 +467,16 @@ static int audit_prepare_user_tty(pid_t 
 	struct task_struct *tsk;
 	int err;
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	tsk = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
-	err = -ESRCH;
-	if (!tsk)
-		goto out;
-	err = 0;
-
-	spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
-	if (!tsk->signal->audit_tty)
-		err = -EPERM;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
-	if (err)
-		goto out;
-
-	tty_audit_push_task(tsk, loginuid, sessionid);
-out:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (!tsk) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		return -ESRCH;
+	}
+	get_task_struct(tsk);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	err = tty_audit_push_task(tsk, loginuid, sessionid);
+	put_task_struct(tsk);
 	return err;
 }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23 14:54 [rfc] "fair" rw spinlocks Nick Piggin
2009-11-24 20:19 ` David Miller
2009-11-25  6:52   ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-25  8:49   ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-25  8:56     ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-24 20:47 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-25  6:54   ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-25  8:48     ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-25 13:09       ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-28  2:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-28 11:15   ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-28 15:20     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-28 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-29 18:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-30  7:57     ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-30  7:55   ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-30 15:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 15:40       ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-30 16:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 16:17           ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-30 16:39           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-30 17:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 17:13               ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-30 17:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-01 17:03                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-01 17:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 18:29                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-30 16:20     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-30 10:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-30 15:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 17:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-30 21:12         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-30 21:27           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-30 22:02             ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-30 22:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-30 22:37                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-30 22:49                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-01 17:37                     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2009-12-01 18:22                       ` [PATCH] audit: Call tty_audit_push_task() outside preempt disabled region Oleg Nesterov
2009-12-01 19:53                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-12-06  3:12                     ` [rfc] "fair" rw spinlocks Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-07 18:18                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-07 22:24                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-07 22:35                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-07 23:19                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-08  1:39                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-08  2:11                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-08  2:37                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-07 18:32                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-12-07 20:38                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-09 15:55                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-12-07 22:10                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-09 15:37                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-12-10  3:36                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-10  6:22                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-10 10:31                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-10 16:41                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-01 19:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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