[PATCH] userns: Make ucounts lock softirq-safe

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 08:21:35 EST


The ucounts_lock is being used to protect various ucounts lifecycle
management functionalities. However, those services can also be invoked
when a pidns is being freed in an RCU callback (e.g. softirq context).
This can lead to deadlocks. Fix it by making the spinlock disable softirq

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/ucount.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
index b4aaee935b3e..23a44ea894cd 100644
--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ static struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
struct hlist_head *hashent = ucounts_hashentry(ns, uid);
struct ucounts *ucounts, *new;

- spin_lock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&ucounts_lock);
ucounts = find_ucounts(ns, uid, hashent);
if (!ucounts) {
- spin_unlock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ucounts_lock);

new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new)
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
new->uid = uid;
atomic_set(&new->count, 0);

- spin_lock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&ucounts_lock);
ucounts = find_ucounts(ns, uid, hashent);
if (ucounts) {
kfree(new);
@@ -156,16 +156,16 @@ static struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
}
if (!atomic_add_unless(&ucounts->count, 1, INT_MAX))
ucounts = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ucounts_lock);
return ucounts;
}

static void put_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ucounts->count)) {
- spin_lock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&ucounts_lock);
hlist_del_init(&ucounts->node);
- spin_unlock(&ucounts_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ucounts_lock);

kfree(ucounts);
}
--
2.7.4


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