aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy race
authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 05:16:35 +0000 (05:16 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:59:59 +0000 (18:59 -0800)
Have ioctx_alloc() return an extra reference, so that caller would drop it
on success and not bother with re-grabbing it on failure exit.  The current
code is obviously broken - io_destroy() from another thread that managed
to guess the address io_setup() would've returned would free ioctx right
under us; gets especially interesting if aio_context_t * we pass to
io_setup() points to PROT_READ mapping, so put_user() fails and we end
up doing io_destroy() on kioctx another thread has just got freed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/aio.c

index 67e4b90..f6578cb 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
        mm = ctx->mm = current->mm;
        atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
 
-       atomic_set(&ctx->users, 1);
+       atomic_set(&ctx->users, 2);
        spin_lock_init(&ctx->ctx_lock);
        spin_lock_init(&ctx->ring_info.ring_lock);
        init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->wait);
@@ -1338,10 +1338,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(io_setup, unsigned, nr_events, aio_context_t __user *, ctxp)
        ret = PTR_ERR(ioctx);
        if (!IS_ERR(ioctx)) {
                ret = put_user(ioctx->user_id, ctxp);
-               if (!ret)
+               if (!ret) {
+                       put_ioctx(ioctx);
                        return 0;
-
-               get_ioctx(ioctx); /* io_destroy() expects us to hold a ref */
+               }
                io_destroy(ioctx);
        }