[PATCH] proc: fix PDE refcounting
From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 08:05:51 EST
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@xxxxx>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 9 ++-------
fs/proc/inode.c | 9 ++-------
fs/proc/root.c | 1 +
fs/reiserfs/procfs.c | 6 ------
include/linux/proc_fs.h | 1 -
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ 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;
@@ -682,7 +683,6 @@ 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)
{
@@ -731,13 +731,8 @@ 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);
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -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();
}
}
--- a/fs/proc/root.c
+++ b/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -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,
--- a/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c
@@ -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;
}
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ 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;
-
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