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[5.10,033/236] fcntl: fix potential deadlock for &fasync_struct.fa_lock

Message ID 20210913131101.468055752@linuxfoundation.org
State Superseded
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Series None | expand

Commit Message

Greg KH Sept. 13, 2021, 1:12 p.m. UTC 
From: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 2f488f698fda820f8e6fa0407630154eceb145d6 ]

There is an existing lock hierarchy of
&dev->event_lock --> &fasync_struct.fa_lock --> &f->f_owner.lock
from the following call chain:

  input_inject_event():
    spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->event_lock,...);
    input_handle_event():
      input_pass_values():
        input_to_handler():
          evdev_events():
            evdev_pass_values():
              spin_lock(&client->buffer_lock);
              __pass_event():
                kill_fasync():
                  kill_fasync_rcu():
                    read_lock(&fa->fa_lock);
                    send_sigio():
                      read_lock_irqsave(&fown->lock,...);

&dev->event_lock is HARDIRQ-safe, so interrupts have to be disabled
while grabbing &fasync_struct.fa_lock, otherwise we invert the lock
hierarchy. However, since kill_fasync which calls kill_fasync_rcu is
an exported symbol, it may not necessarily be called with interrupts
disabled.

As kill_fasync_rcu may be called with interrupts disabled (for
example, in the call chain above), we replace calls to
read_lock/read_unlock on &fasync_struct.fa_lock in kill_fasync_rcu
with read_lock_irqsave/read_unlock_irqrestore.

Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/fcntl.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 05b36b28f2e8..71b43538fa44 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -995,13 +995,14 @@  static void kill_fasync_rcu(struct fasync_struct *fa, int sig, int band)
 {
 	while (fa) {
 		struct fown_struct *fown;
+		unsigned long flags;
 
 		if (fa->magic != FASYNC_MAGIC) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "kill_fasync: bad magic number in "
 			       "fasync_struct!\n");
 			return;
 		}
-		read_lock(&fa->fa_lock);
+		read_lock_irqsave(&fa->fa_lock, flags);
 		if (fa->fa_file) {
 			fown = &fa->fa_file->f_owner;
 			/* Don't send SIGURG to processes which have not set a
@@ -1010,7 +1011,7 @@  static void kill_fasync_rcu(struct fasync_struct *fa, int sig, int band)
 			if (!(sig == SIGURG && fown->signum == 0))
 				send_sigio(fown, fa->fa_fd, band);
 		}
-		read_unlock(&fa->fa_lock);
+		read_unlock_irqrestore(&fa->fa_lock, flags);
 		fa = rcu_dereference(fa->fa_next);
 	}
 }