Re: [PATCH] ipc/mqueue: Avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Wed May 05 2021 - 11:11:59 EST


On 2021-05-05 00:49, Varad Gautam wrote:
The race here really is about the lifetime of __pipelined_op's `this`
argument only
being guaranteed for some duration of the call (ie, until someone sets
->state = STATE_READY). It is not about when wake_q addition happens,
as long as it is
being fed a valid task_struct.

Again, it's all about ensuring that the READY_STATE is set last, the blocked
task has no business returning in the first place, making both races (exit and
the one reported here) similar by ending up using bogus memory.

...

I considered that initially, but given that the race isn't connected
with wakeup, I
preferred the current approach which makes this fact explicit by showing what's
valid/invalid during __pipelined_op.

I understand your point, but this is why I updated the ordering comments. Furthermore
there is no reason to decouple the task's refcount with the wake_q_add operation, it
just makes the code weird and harder to follow.

Thanks,
Davidlohr