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ipc: sysvsem: force unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) when CLONE_NEWIPC 

sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) doesn't handle the undo lists properly, this can
cause a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing
undo lists.

Fix, part 2: perform an implicit CLONE_SYSVSEM in CLONE_NEWIPC.  CLONE_NEWIPC
creates a new IPC namespace, the task cannot access the existing semaphore
arrays after the unshare syscall.  Thus the task can/must detach from the
existing undo list entries, too.

This fixes the kernel corruption, because it makes it impossible that
undo records from two different namespaces are in sysvsem.undo_list.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Manfred Spraul 2008-04-29 01:00:59 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9edff4ab1f
commit 6013f67fc1
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1696,7 +1696,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_flags)
CLONE_NEWNET))
goto bad_unshare_out;
if (unshare_flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM)
/*
* CLONE_NEWIPC must also detach from the undolist: after switching
* to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
* namespace are unreachable.
*/
if (unshare_flags & (CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_SYSVSEM))
do_sysvsem = 1;
if ((err = unshare_thread(unshare_flags)))
goto bad_unshare_out;