[PATCH] inotify: inotify_destroy_mark_entry could get called twice

From: Eric Paris
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 16:27:23 EST


inotify_destroy_mark_entry could get called twice for the same mark since it
is called directly in inotify_rm_watch and when the mark is being destroyed for
another reason. As an example assume that the file being watched was just
deleted so inotify_destroy_mark_entry would get called from the path
fsnotify_inoderemove() -> fsnotify_destroy_marks_by_inode() ->
fsnotify_destroy_mark_entry() -> inotify_destroy_mark_entry(). If this
happened at the same time as userspace tried to remove a watch via
inotify_rm_watch we could attempt to remove the mark from the idr twice and
could thus double dec the ref cnt and potentially could be in a use after
free/double free situation. The fix is to have inotify_rm_watch use the
generic recursive safe fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry() so we are sure the
inotify_destroy_mark_entry() function can only be called one.

This patch also renames the function to inotify_ingored_remove_idr() so it is
clear what is actually going on in the function.

Hopefully this fixes:
[ 20.342058] idr_remove called for id=20 which is not allocated.
[ 20.348000] Pid: 1860, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.30-tip #1077
[ 20.353933] Call Trace:
[ 20.356410] [<ffffffff811a82b7>] idr_remove+0x115/0x18f
[ 20.361737] [<ffffffff8134259d>] ? _spin_lock+0x6d/0x75
[ 20.367061] [<ffffffff8111640a>] ? inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xa3/0xcf
[ 20.373771] [<ffffffff8111641e>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xb7/0xcf
[ 20.380306] [<ffffffff81115913>] inotify_freeing_mark+0xe/0x10
[ 20.386238] [<ffffffff8111410d>] fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry+0x143/0x170
[ 20.393293] [<ffffffff811163a3>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0x3c/0xcf
[ 20.399829] [<ffffffff811164d1>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x9b/0xc6
[ 20.405850] [<ffffffff8100bcdb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h | 3 ++-
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 2 +-
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 32 +++++---------------------------
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h
index ea2605a..f234f3a 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ struct inotify_inode_mark_entry {
int wd;
};

-extern void inotify_destroy_mark_entry(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group);
+extern void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
+ struct fsnotify_group *group);
extern void inotify_free_event_priv(struct fsnotify_event_private_data *event_priv);

extern const struct fsnotify_ops inotify_fsnotify_ops;
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 7ef75b8..47cd258 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static int inotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_ev

static void inotify_freeing_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
- inotify_destroy_mark_entry(entry, group);
+ inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(entry, group);
}

static bool inotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inode, __u32 mask)
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 982a412..ff231ad 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -363,39 +363,17 @@ static int inotify_find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct path *path, uns
}

/*
- * When, for whatever reason, inotify is done with a mark (or what used to be a
- * watch) we need to remove that watch from the idr and we need to send IN_IGNORED
- * for the given wd.
- *
- * There is a bit of recursion here. The loop looks like:
- * inotify_destroy_mark_entry -> fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry ->
- * inotify_freeing_mark -> inotify_destory_mark_entry -> restart
- * But the loop is broken in 2 places. fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry sets
- * entry->group = NULL before the call to inotify_freeing_mark, so the if (egroup)
- * test below will not call back to fsnotify again. But even if that test wasn't
- * there this would still be safe since fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry() is
- * safe from recursion.
+ * Send IN_IGNORED for this wd, remove this wd from the idr, and drop the
+ * internal reference help on the mark because it is in the idr.
*/
-void inotify_destroy_mark_entry(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group)
+void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
+ struct fsnotify_group *group)
{
struct inotify_inode_mark_entry *ientry;
struct inotify_event_private_data *event_priv;
struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsn_event_priv;
- struct fsnotify_group *egroup;
struct idr *idr;

- spin_lock(&entry->lock);
- egroup = entry->group;
-
- /* if egroup we aren't really done and something might still send events
- * for this inode, on the callback we'll send the IN_IGNORED */
- if (egroup) {
- spin_unlock(&entry->lock);
- fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry(entry);
- return;
- }
- spin_unlock(&entry->lock);
-
ientry = container_of(entry, struct inotify_inode_mark_entry, fsn_entry);

event_priv = kmem_cache_alloc(event_priv_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -699,7 +677,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(inotify_rm_watch, int, fd, __s32, wd)
fsnotify_get_mark(entry);
spin_unlock(&group->inotify_data.idr_lock);

- inotify_destroy_mark_entry(entry, group);
+ fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry(entry);
fsnotify_put_mark(entry);

out:

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