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proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting 

Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and "deleted" flag has problems (see below).
Switch to usual scheme:
* PDE is created with refcount 1
* every de_get does +1
* every de_put() and remove_proc_entry() do -1
* once refcount reaches 0, PDE is freed.

This elegantly fixes at least two following races (both observed) without
introducing new locks, without abusing old locks, without spreading
lock_kernel():

1) PDE leak

remove_proc_entry			de_put
-----------------			------
			[refcnt = 1]
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
					if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
						if (de->deleted)
							/* also not taken! */
							free_proc_entry(de);
else
	de->deleted = 1;
		[refcount=0, deleted=1]

2) use after free

remove_proc_entry			de_put
-----------------			------
			[refcnt = 1]

					if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
	free_proc_entry(de);
						/* boom! */
						if (de->deleted)
							free_proc_entry(de);

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b
printing eip: c10acdda *pdpt = 00000000338f8001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: af_packet ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand loop serio_raw psmouse k8temp hwmon sr_mod cdrom
Pid: 23161, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc2-8c0863403f109a43d7000b4646da4818220d501f #4)
EIP: 0060:[<c10acdda>] EFLAGS: 00210097 CPU: 1
EIP is at strnlen+0x6/0x18
EAX: 6b6b6b6b EBX: 6b6b6b6b ECX: 6b6b6b6b EDX: fffffffe
ESI: c128fa3b EDI: f380bf34 EBP: ffffffff ESP: f380be44
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 23161, ti=f380b000 task=f38f2570 task.ti=f380b000)
Stack: c10ac4f0 00000278 c12ce000 f43cd2a8 00000163 00000000 7da86067 00000400
       c128fa20 00896b18 f38325a8 c128fe20 ffffffff 00000000 c11f291e 00000400
       f75be300 c128fa20 f769c9a0 c10ac779 f380bf34 f7bfee70 c1018e6b f380bf34
Call Trace:
 [<c10ac4f0>] vsnprintf+0x2ad/0x49b
 [<c10ac779>] vscnprintf+0x14/0x1f
 [<c1018e6b>] vprintk+0xc5/0x2f9
 [<c10379f1>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xab
 [<c1004f44>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb7
 [<c117db3b>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x3f/0x5b
 [<c100264e>] need_resched+0x1f/0x21
 [<c10190ba>] printk+0x1b/0x1f
 [<c107c8ad>] de_put+0x3d/0x50
 [<c107c8f8>] proc_delete_inode+0x38/0x41
 [<c107c8c0>] proc_delete_inode+0x0/0x41
 [<c1066298>] generic_delete_inode+0x5e/0xc6
 [<c1065aa9>] iput+0x60/0x62
 [<c1063c8e>] d_kill+0x2d/0x46
 [<c1063fa9>] dput+0xdc/0xe4
 [<c10571a1>] __fput+0xb0/0xcd
 [<c1054e49>] filp_close+0x48/0x4f
 [<c1055ee9>] sys_close+0x67/0xa5
 [<c10026b6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
=======================
Code: c9 74 0c f2 ae 74 05 bf 01 00 00 00 4f 89 fa 5f 89 d0 c3 85 c9 57 89 c7 89 d0 74 05 f2 ae 75 01 4f 89 f8 5f c3 89 c1 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 c3 90 90 90 57 83 c9
EIP: [<c10acdda>] strnlen+0x6/0x18 SS:ESP 0068:f380be44

Also, remove broken usage of ->deleted from reiserfs: if sget() succeeds,
module is already pinned and remove_proc_entry() can't happen => nobody
can mark PDE deleted.

Dummy proc root in netns code is not marked with refcount 1. AFAICS, we
never get it, it's just for proper /proc/net removal. I double checked
CLONE_NETNS continues to work.

Patch survives many hours of modprobe/rmmod/cat loops without new bugs
which can be attributed to refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Alexey Dobriyan 2007-12-04 23:45:28 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d4beaf4ab5
commit 5a622f2d0f
5 changed files with 5 additions and 21 deletions
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9
fs/proc/generic.c
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@ -595,6 +595,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent,
ent->namelen = len;
ent->mode = mode;
ent->nlink = nlink;
atomic_set(&ent->count, 1);
ent->pde_users = 0;
spin_lock_init(&ent->pde_unload_lock);
ent->pde_unload_completion = NULL;
@ -692,7 +693,6 @@ void free_proc_entry(struct proc_dir_entry *de)
/*
* Remove a /proc entry and free it if it's not currently in use.
* If it is in use, we set the 'deleted' flag.
*/
void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
{
@ -741,13 +741,8 @@ continue_removing:
parent->nlink--;
de->nlink = 0;
WARN_ON(de->subdir);
if (!atomic_read(&de->count))
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
free_proc_entry(de);
else {
de->deleted = 1;
printk("remove_proc_entry: %s/%s busy, count=%d\n",
parent->name, de->name, atomic_read(&de->count));
}
break;
}
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);

9
fs/proc/inode.c
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@ -43,13 +43,8 @@ void de_put(struct proc_dir_entry *de)
return;
}
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) {
if (de->deleted) {
printk("de_put: deferred delete of %s\n",
de->name);
free_proc_entry(de);
}
}
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
free_proc_entry(de);
unlock_kernel();
}
}

1
fs/proc/root.c
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@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry proc_root = {
.name = "/proc",
.mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
.nlink = 2,
.count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.proc_iops = &proc_root_inode_operations,
.proc_fops = &proc_root_operations,
.parent = &proc_root,

6
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c
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@ -420,12 +420,6 @@ static void *r_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t * pos)
return NULL;
up_write(&s->s_umount);
if (de->deleted) {
deactivate_super(s);
return NULL;
}
return s;
}

1
include/linux/proc_fs.h
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@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ struct proc_dir_entry {
read_proc_t *read_proc;
write_proc_t *write_proc;
atomic_t count; /* use count */
int deleted; /* delete flag */
int pde_users; /* number of callers into module in progress */
spinlock_t pde_unload_lock; /* proc_fops checks and pde_users bumps */
struct completion *pde_unload_completion;