Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] locks: fix unlock when fcntl_setlk races with a close

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 10:55:42 EST


On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 08:50:09AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Dmitry reported that he was able to reproduce the WARN_ON_ONCE that
> fires in locks_free_lock_context when the flc_posix list isn't empty.
>
> The problem turns out to be that we're basically rebuilding the
> file_lock from scratch in fcntl_setlk when we discover that the setlk
> has raced with a close. If the l_whence field is SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END,
> then we may end up with fl_start and fl_end values that differ from
> when the lock was initially set, if the file position or length of the
> file has changed in the interim.
>
> Fix this by just reusing the same lock request structure, and simply
> override fl_type value with F_UNLCK as appropriate. That ensures that
> we really are unlocking the lock that was initially set.

You could also just do a whole-file unlock, couldn't you? That would
seem less confusing to me. But maybe I'm missing something.

--b.

>
> While we're there, make sure that we do pop a WARN_ON_ONCE if the
> removal ever fails. Also return -EBADF in this event, since that's
> what we would have returned if the close had happened earlier.
>
> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: c293621bbf67 (stale POSIX lock handling)
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/locks.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 593dca300b29..c263aff793bc 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -2181,7 +2181,6 @@ int fcntl_setlk(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
> goto out;
> }
>
> -again:
> error = flock_to_posix_lock(filp, file_lock, &flock);
> if (error)
> goto out;
> @@ -2223,19 +2222,22 @@ again:
> * Attempt to detect a close/fcntl race and recover by
> * releasing the lock that was just acquired.
> */
> - /*
> - * we need that spin_lock here - it prevents reordering between
> - * update of i_flctx->flc_posix and check for it done in close().
> - * rcu_read_lock() wouldn't do.
> - */
> - spin_lock(&current->files->file_lock);
> - f = fcheck(fd);
> - spin_unlock(&current->files->file_lock);
> - if (!error && f != filp && flock.l_type != F_UNLCK) {
> - flock.l_type = F_UNLCK;
> - goto again;
> + if (!error && file_lock->fl_type != F_UNLCK) {
> + /*
> + * We need that spin_lock here - it prevents reordering between
> + * update of i_flctx->flc_posix and check for it done in
> + * close(). rcu_read_lock() wouldn't do.
> + */
> + spin_lock(&current->files->file_lock);
> + f = fcheck(fd);
> + spin_unlock(&current->files->file_lock);
> + if (f != filp) {
> + file_lock->fl_type = F_UNLCK;
> + error = do_lock_file_wait(filp, cmd, file_lock);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(error);
> + error = -EBADF;
> + }
> }
> -
> out:
> locks_free_lock(file_lock);
> return error;
> @@ -2321,7 +2323,6 @@ int fcntl_setlk64(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
> goto out;
> }
>
> -again:
> error = flock64_to_posix_lock(filp, file_lock, &flock);
> if (error)
> goto out;
> @@ -2363,14 +2364,22 @@ again:
> * Attempt to detect a close/fcntl race and recover by
> * releasing the lock that was just acquired.
> */
> - spin_lock(&current->files->file_lock);
> - f = fcheck(fd);
> - spin_unlock(&current->files->file_lock);
> - if (!error && f != filp && flock.l_type != F_UNLCK) {
> - flock.l_type = F_UNLCK;
> - goto again;
> + if (!error && file_lock->fl_type != F_UNLCK) {
> + /*
> + * We need that spin_lock here - it prevents reordering between
> + * update of i_flctx->flc_posix and check for it done in
> + * close(). rcu_read_lock() wouldn't do.
> + */
> + spin_lock(&current->files->file_lock);
> + f = fcheck(fd);
> + spin_unlock(&current->files->file_lock);
> + if (f != filp) {
> + file_lock->fl_type = F_UNLCK;
> + error = do_lock_file_wait(filp, cmd, file_lock);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(error);
> + error = -EBADF;
> + }
> }
> -
> out:
> locks_free_lock(file_lock);
> return error;
> --
> 2.5.0