Re: [ 06/89] device_cgroup: fix RCU usage

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:31:52PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 201e72acb2d3821e2de9ce6091e98859c316b29a upstream.
> 
> dev_cgroup->exceptions is protected with devcgroup_mutex for writes
> and RCU for reads; however, RCU usage isn't correct.
> 
> * dev_exception_clean() doesn't use RCU variant of list_del() and
>   kfree().  The function can race with may_access() and may_access()
>   may end up dereferencing already freed memory.  Use list_del_rcu()
>   and kfree_rcu() instead.
> 
> * may_access() may be called only with RCU read locked but doesn't use
>   RCU safe traversal over ->exceptions.  Use list_for_each_entry_rcu().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [bwh: Backported to 3.2:
>  - Adjust context
>  - Exception list is called whitelist]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I belive this backport is uneeded for 3.2 (or any stable <= 3.6), since
may_access_whitelist (may_access now in mainline) isn't called under
rcu_read_lock.

> ---
>  security/device_cgroup.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/security/device_cgroup.c
> +++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
> @@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ static void devcgroup_destroy(struct cgr
>  
>  	dev_cgroup = cgroup_to_devcgroup(cgroup);
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(wh, tmp, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) {
> -		list_del(&wh->list);
> -		kfree(wh);
> +		list_del_rcu(&wh->list);
> +		kfree_rcu(wh, rcu);
>  	}
>  	kfree(dev_cgroup);
>  }
> @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static int may_access_whitelist(struct d
>  {
>  	struct dev_whitelist_item *whitem;
>  
> -	list_for_each_entry(whitem, &c->whitelist, list) {
> +	list_for_each_entry_rcu(whitem, &c->whitelist, list) {
>  		if (whitem->type & DEV_ALL)
>  			return 1;
>  		if ((refwh->type & DEV_BLOCK) && !(whitem->type & DEV_BLOCK))
> 
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