ipc: introduce ipc_valid_object() helper to sort out IPC_RMID races

After the locking semantics for the SysV IPC API got improved, a couple
of IPC_RMID race windows were opened because we ended up dropping the
'kern_ipc_perm.deleted' check performed way down in ipc_lock().  The
spotted races got sorted out by re-introducing the old test within the
racy critical sections.

This patch introduces ipc_valid_object() to consolidate the way we cope
with IPC_RMID races by using the same abstraction across the API
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index 59d78aa9498..d05b7085a88 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -185,6 +185,19 @@ static inline void ipc_unlock(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
+/*
+ * ipc_valid_object() - helper to sort out IPC_RMID races for codepaths
+ * where the respective ipc_ids.rwsem is not being held down.
+ * Checks whether the ipc object is still around or if it's gone already, as
+ * ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while the ipc lock was spinning.
+ * Needs to be called with kern_ipc_perm.lock held -- exception made for one
+ * checkpoint case at sys_semtimedop() as noted in code commentary.
+ */
+static inline bool ipc_valid_object(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+{
+	return perm->deleted == 0;
+}
+
 struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_obtain_object_check(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
 int ipcget(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_ids *ids,
 			struct ipc_ops *ops, struct ipc_params *params);