timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:24:03 +0000 (15:24 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 26 Aug 2017 01:14:49 +0000 (02:14 +0100)
commite7467c79d7dfa504587f9bc95bf180d92715c07d
treef60ee725d70d652dabd15c67e36d450503656164
parent276cb60b67f5c99bf278b5371c6643e4af63f75d
timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper

commit 1e38da300e1e395a15048b0af1e5305bd91402f6 upstream.

The handling of the might_cancel queueing is not properly protected, so
parallel operations on the file descriptor can race with each other and
lead to list corruptions or use after free.

Protect the context for these operations with a seperate lock.

The wait queue lock cannot be reused for this because that would create a
lock inversion scenario vs. the cancel lock. Replacing might_cancel with an
atomic (atomic_t or atomic bit) does not help either because it still can
race vs. the actual list operation.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org"
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1701311521430.3457@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/timerfd.c