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Subject[TEST PATCH] Re: kernel 2.6.8 bug in fs/locks.c
* Chris Wright (chrisw@osdl.org) wrote:
> * Ivan Kalatchev (ivan.kalatchev@esg.ca) wrote:
> > I'm using pthreads for each user-application connections. To protect
> > configuration file from corruption I used file locking mechanism - fcntl
> > with F_WRLCK/F_RDLCK.
>
> I must be confused. pthreads and fcntl locking...that does't give
> proper exclusion? The BUG, however, is no good. Despite the fact
> that it appears to come at the result of an application bug, we should
> be able to handle this w/out a BUG. AFAICT, one thread has closed the
> file descriptor, whilst another is mucking with the locks. So the locker
> winds up holding the last ref to the filp. This blows the logic of when
> locks_remove_posix gets called. Thanks for the bug report.

This is a rather ugly fix, but it demonstrates the hole. It's possible
for a posix lock to get applied after the final close of the file. This
means locks_remove_posix misses the yet to be created posix lock, and
on final fput when leaving fcntl, locks_remove_flock will BUG().
I was able to reproduce Ivan's bugreport. I doubt it's the right/best
fix, but it's functional (no more BUG()). Against -bk-curr.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>

===== fs/fcntl.c 1.40 vs edited =====
--- 1.40/fs/fcntl.c 2004-09-02 02:48:03 -07:00
+++ edited/fs/fcntl.c 2004-10-01 17:34:15 -07:00
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@

asmlinkage long sys_fcntl(int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
- struct file *filp;
+ struct file *filp, *filp2;
long err = -EBADF;

filp = fget(fd);
@@ -379,6 +379,11 @@

err = do_fcntl(fd, cmd, arg, filp);

+ filp2 = fget(fd);
+ if (filp2 != filp)
+ locks_remove_posix(filp, current->files);
+ if (filp2)
+ fput(filp2);
fput(filp);
out:
return err;
@@ -387,7 +392,7 @@
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
asmlinkage long sys_fcntl64(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
- struct file * filp;
+ struct file *filp, *filp2;
long err;

err = -EBADF;
@@ -414,6 +419,12 @@
err = do_fcntl(fd, cmd, arg, filp);
break;
}
+
+ filp2 = fget(fd);
+ if (filp2 != filp)
+ locks_remove_posix(filp, current->files);
+ if (filp2)
+ fput(filp2);
fput(filp);
out:
return err;
-
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