Re: Bisected regression in Linux 3.7.0-rc1, hang on login caused byreplace_fd()

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Oct 15 2012 - 19:48:44 EST


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:40:08PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:27:05 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think I understand what's going on there. Add
> > fput(files[0]) after that replace_fd(); we have a leak and while
> > that's not the right way to fix it, that'd verify if anything else is
> > going on there.
>
> Yes, it's working now! No more hang on login!

That should be closer to the final variant.

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index fd37fac..ce47379 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -450,11 +450,12 @@ static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new)

cp->file = files[1];

- replace_fd(0, files[0], 0);
+ err = replace_fd(0, files[0], 0);
+ fput(files[0]);
/* and disallow core files too */
current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){1, 1};

- return 0;
+ return err;
}

void do_coredump(siginfo_t *siginfo, struct pt_regs *regs)
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 24ab414..61a5336 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2132,18 +2132,14 @@ static inline void flush_unauthorized_files(const struct cred *cred,
return;

devnull = dentry_open(&selinux_null, O_RDWR, cred);
- if (!IS_ERR(devnull)) {
- /* replace all the matching ones with this */
- do {
- replace_fd(n - 1, get_file(devnull), 0);
- } while ((n = iterate_fd(files, n, match_file, cred)) != 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(devnull))
+ devnull = NULL;
+ /* replace all the matching ones with this */
+ do {
+ replace_fd(n - 1, devnull, 0);
+ } while ((n = iterate_fd(files, n, match_file, cred)) != 0);
+ if (devnull)
fput(devnull);
- } else {
- /* just close all the matching ones */
- do {
- replace_fd(n - 1, NULL, 0);
- } while ((n = iterate_fd(files, n, match_file, cred)) != 0);
- }
}

/*
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