[PATCH] ipc,shm: Correct error return value in shmctl (SHM_UNLOCK)

From: Jesper Nilsson
Date: Wed Nov 20 2013 - 05:44:19 EST


Commit 2caacaa82a51b78fc0c800e206473874094287ed restructured
the ipc shm to shorten critical region, but introduced a path
where the return value could be -EPERM, even if the operation
actually was performed.

Before the commit, the err return value was reset by the return value
from security_shm_shmctl() after the if (!ns_capable(...)) statement.

Now, we still exit the if statement with err set to -EPERM,
and in the case of SHM_UNLOCK, it is not reset at all,
and used as the return value from shmctl.

To fix this, we only set err when errors occur, leaving the
fallthrough case alone.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
ipc/shm.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index d697396..4076f9e 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -974,12 +974,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(shmctl, int, shmid, int, cmd, struct shmid_ds __user *, buf)
ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_IPC_LOCK)) {
kuid_t euid = current_euid();
- err = -EPERM;
if (!uid_eq(euid, shp->shm_perm.uid) &&
- !uid_eq(euid, shp->shm_perm.cuid))
+ !uid_eq(euid, shp->shm_perm.cuid)) {
+ err = -EPERM;
goto out_unlock0;
- if (cmd == SHM_LOCK && !rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK))
+ }
+ if (cmd == SHM_LOCK && !rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK)) {
+ err = -EPERM;
goto out_unlock0;
+ }
}

shm_file = shp->shm_file;
--
1.8.4


/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@xxxxxxxx
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