Re: [ipc,shm] BUG: lock held when returning to user space!

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Sat Jul 20 2013 - 12:02:40 EST


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> commit c5d0282a0405b0a81fa3390e4230e4cbb3ced7a2
> Author: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jul 19 09:56:58 2013 +1000
>
> ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
>
> Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing
> the initial permission and security checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ 20.702156]
> [ 20.702493] ================================================
> [ 20.703511] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
> [ 20.704532] 3.11.0-rc1-next-20130719 #50 Not tainted
> [ 20.705416] ------------------------------------------------
> [ 20.706425] trinity-child0/174 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> [ 20.707638] 1 lock held by trinity-child0/174:
> [ 20.708475] #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff814a8491>] do_shmat+0xe1/0x500
>

----
ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
- shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
goto out;
----

If shm_obtain_object_check() failed, goto out will return with
rcu_read_lock() held. I think following patch should cure this.

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 59f2194..cb2ceda 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr,
int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
}

err = -EACCES;




> git bisect start c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c d03792f9db9b892f494d3aa19d767ddf0365d1ff --
> git bisect good 10a3f1f902465ae1320cc95a3284fd3697e05dd8 # 11:14 65+ binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting
> git bisect bad dac28788378838efb63e37a7eabd7729d97aba6b # 11:32 0- dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list
> git bisect good 3140b2ed6dfe5c9e5eca371c77ca85dca05321d4 # 11:50 65+ ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock
> git bisect bad 48a91248649fa3327bd8a31c114ee9149a07f3a7 # 12:04 0- staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API
> git bisect good 98b78126a51aa5d3ee6d5dae5768e0d16deeeaa3 # 12:14 65+ ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
> git bisect bad 36ccfd799cad33e2edd5c14ac8776b33e63d195b # 12:14 0- ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
> git bisect bad c5d0282a0405b0a81fa3390e4230e4cbb3ced7a2 # 12:14 0- ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
> git bisect good 98b78126a51aa5d3ee6d5dae5768e0d16deeeaa3 # 15:34 195+ ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
> git bisect bad c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c # 15:34 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130719
> git bisect good 709b465ee655387c4ec056383fa27f16c64f48db # 18:21 195+ Revert "ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat"
> git bisect good d471ce53b1fab60110e4e9f647a345cea31752de # 18:44 195+ Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml
> git bisect bad c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c # 18:44 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130719
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
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