ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race
When __do_semtimedop() goes to sleep because it has to wait for a semaphore value becoming zero or becoming bigger than some threshold, it links the on-stack sem_queue to the sem_array, then goes to sleep without holding a reference on the sem_array. When __do_semtimedop() comes back out of sleep, one of two things must happen: a) We prove that the on-stack sem_queue has been disconnected from the (possibly freed) sem_array, making it safe to return from the stack frame that the sem_queue exists in. b) We stabilize our reference to the sem_array, lock the sem_array, and detach the sem_queue from the sem_array ourselves. sem_array has RCU lifetime, so for case (b), the reference can be stabilized inside an RCU read-side critical section by locklessly checking whether the sem_queue is still connected to the sem_array. However, the current code does the lockless check on sem_queue before starting an RCU read-side critical section, so the result of the lockless check immediately becomes useless. Fix it by doing rcu_read_lock() before the lockless check. Now RCU ensures that if we observe the object being on our queue, the object can't be freed until rcu_read_unlock(). This bug is only hittable on kernel builds with full preemption support (either CONFIG_PREEMPT or PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with preempt=full). Fixes: 370b262c ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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