[PATCH 3/5] autofs4 - fix waitq locking

From: Ian Kent
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 05:29:49 EST


The autofs4_catatonic_mode() function accesses the wait queue without
any locking but can be called at any time. This could lead to a
possible double free of the name field of the wait and a double fput
of the daemon communication pipe or an fput of a NULL file pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

fs/autofs4/inode.c | 4 ++--
fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)


diff --git a/fs/autofs4/inode.c b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
index e3e7099..7bb3e5b 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ void autofs4_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
if (!sbi)
goto out_kill_sb;

- if (!sbi->catatonic)
- autofs4_catatonic_mode(sbi); /* Free wait queues, close pipe */
+ /* Free wait queues, close pipe */
+ autofs4_catatonic_mode(sbi);

/* Clean up and release dangling references */
autofs4_force_release(sbi);
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
index d291b07..f8dee31 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ void autofs4_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi)
{
struct autofs_wait_queue *wq, *nwq;

+ mutex_lock(&sbi->wq_mutex);
+ if (sbi->catatonic) {
+ mutex_unlock(&sbi->wq_mutex);
+ return;
+ }
+
DPRINTK("entering catatonic mode");

sbi->catatonic = 1;
@@ -45,6 +51,8 @@ void autofs4_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi)
}
fput(sbi->pipe); /* Close the pipe */
sbi->pipe = NULL;
+ sbi->pipefd = -1;
+ mutex_unlock(&sbi->wq_mutex);
}

static int autofs4_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int bytes)
@@ -398,17 +406,10 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry,
wq->name.name, notify);
}

- /* wq->name is NULL if and only if the lock is already released */
-
- if (sbi->catatonic) {
- /* We might have slept, so check again for catatonic mode */
- wq->status = -ENOENT;
- if (wq->name.name) {
- kfree(wq->name.name);
- wq->name.name = NULL;
- }
- }
-
+ /*
+ * wq->name.name is NULL iff the lock is already released
+ * or the mount has been made catatonic.
+ */
if (wq->name.name) {
/* Block all but "shutdown" signals while waiting */
sigset_t oldset;
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