futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails check
commite40f6f19040c83453a98da6ad5c87ccfac0d64e7
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:51:19 +0000 (30 09:51 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:30:08 +0000 (2 10:30 -0700)
treec5b5b000ce2b936a137a71916c539ee7ed8c45b4
parent73759b079bcc5f30d357cf78e10dd3506371a830
futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails check

commit 7a0ea09ad5352efce8fe79ed853150449903b9f5 upstream.

futex_find_get_task is currently used (through lookup_pi_state) from two
contexts, futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi_atomic.  None of the paths
looks it needs the credentials check, though.  Different (e)uids
shouldn't matter at all because the only thing that is important for
shared futex is the accessibility of the shared memory.

The credentail check results in glibc assert failure or process hang (if
glibc is compiled without assert support) for shared robust pthread
mutex with priority inheritance if a process tries to lock already held
lock owned by a process with a different euid:

pthread_mutex_lock.c:312: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `(-(e)) != 3 || !robust' failed.

The problem is that futex_lock_pi_atomic which is called when we try to
lock already held lock checks the current holder (tid is stored in the
futex value) to get the PI state.  It uses lookup_pi_state which in turn
gets task struct from futex_find_get_task.  ESRCH is returned either
when the task is not found or if credentials check fails.

futex_lock_pi_atomic simply returns if it gets ESRCH.  glibc code,
however, doesn't expect that robust lock returns with ESRCH because it
should get either success or owner died.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/futex.c