Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755431AbaDXJWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:22:47 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:47027 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754809AbaDXI4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:56:00 -0400 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Mikulas Patocka , Linus Torvalds , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 3.11 154/182] user namespace: fix incorrect memory barriers Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:51:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1398329507-5911-155-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1398329507-5911-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1398329507-5911-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.11.10.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit e79323bd87808fdfbc68ce6c5371bd224d9672ee upstream. smp_read_barrier_depends() can be used if there is data dependency between the readers - i.e. if the read operation after the barrier uses address that was obtained from the read operation before the barrier. In this file, there is only control dependency, no data dependecy, so the use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is incorrect. The code could fail in the following way: * the cpu predicts that idx < entries is true and starts executing the body of the for loop * the cpu fetches map->extent[0].first and map->extent[0].count * the cpu fetches map->nr_extents * the cpu verifies that idx < extents is true, so it commits the instructions in the body of the for loop The problem is that in this scenario, the cpu read map->extent[0].first and map->nr_extents in the wrong order. We need a full read memory barrier to prevent it. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- kernel/user_namespace.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c index 9064b91..9bea1d7 100644 --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static u32 map_id_range_down(struct uid_gid_map *map, u32 id, u32 count) /* Find the matching extent */ extents = map->nr_extents; - smp_read_barrier_depends(); + smp_rmb(); for (idx = 0; idx < extents; idx++) { first = map->extent[idx].first; last = first + map->extent[idx].count - 1; @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static u32 map_id_down(struct uid_gid_map *map, u32 id) /* Find the matching extent */ extents = map->nr_extents; - smp_read_barrier_depends(); + smp_rmb(); for (idx = 0; idx < extents; idx++) { first = map->extent[idx].first; last = first + map->extent[idx].count - 1; @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static u32 map_id_up(struct uid_gid_map *map, u32 id) /* Find the matching extent */ extents = map->nr_extents; - smp_read_barrier_depends(); + smp_rmb(); for (idx = 0; idx < extents; idx++) { first = map->extent[idx].lower_first; last = first + map->extent[idx].count - 1; @@ -611,9 +611,8 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, * were written before the count of the extents. * * To achieve this smp_wmb() is used on guarantee the write - * order and smp_read_barrier_depends() is guaranteed that we - * don't have crazy architectures returning stale data. - * + * order and smp_rmb() is guaranteed that we don't have crazy + * architectures returning stale data. */ mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/