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2018-10-03signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfoEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying around in the kernel. The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in the kernel that embed struct siginfo. So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to 128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo. The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have the same field offsets. To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2017-11-17Merge branch 'misc.compat' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro: - {get,put}_compat_sigset() series - assorted compat ioctl stuff - more set_fs() elimination - a few more timespec64 conversions - several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was followed only by non-__ variants of primitives * 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits) coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs() ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok() pi433: sanitize ioctl cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok() mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok() r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel() selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin i2c compat ioctls: move to ->compat_ioctl() sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs() mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() get_compat_sigset() get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec() io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts ...
2017-11-10coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlinkChristoph Hellwig1-6/+1
And stop messing with the address limit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-13mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flagMichal Hocko1-1/+1
GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is no good answer for those questions. The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits. I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning. I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention. I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and only then add users with proper justification. This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term allocations. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
<linux/sched/task_stack.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar1-1/+1
<linux/sched/signal.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
<linux/sched/coredump.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/coredump.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/coredump.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core filesDave Kleikamp1-0/+18
If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page, the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip() call. gdb complains that the file is truncated and can be confusing to users. After all of the vma sections are written, make sure that the file size is no smaller than the current file position. This problem can be demonstrated with gdb's bigcore testcase on the sparc architecture. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-12-24Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globallyLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al: PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>' sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \ $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h) to do the replacement at the end of the merge window. Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping taskAndrey Ryabinin1-0/+3
It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for 'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'. Inability to freeze a task during suspend will cause suspend to fail. Also CRIU uses cgroup freezer during dump operation. So with an unfreezable task the CRIU dump will fail because it waits for a transition from 'FREEZING' to 'FROZEN' state which will never happen. Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping task while it waits for core_state->startup completion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475225434-3753-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-07coredump: fix dumping through pipesMateusz Guzik1-1/+3
The offset in the core file used to be tracked with ->written field of the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of file->f_pos. However, ->f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage. Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce ->pos field for this purpose since ->written was already reused. Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params->written"). Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-23coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killableMichal Hocko1-1/+3
coredump_wait waits for mmap_sem for write currently which can prevent oom_reaper to reclaim the oom victims address space asynchronously because that requires mmap_sem for read. This might happen if the oom victim is multi threaded and some thread(s) is holding mmap_sem for read (e.g. page fault) and it is stuck in the page allocator while other thread(s) reached coredump_wait already. This patch simply uses down_write_killable and bails out with EINTR if the lock got interrupted by the fatal signal. do_coredump will return right away and do_group_exit will take care to zap the whole thread group. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-12coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_COREOmar Sandoval1-3/+2
Commit 9b56d54380ad ("dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking coredump_params") introduced a regression with regard to RLIMIT_CORE. Previously, when a core dump was sparse, only the data that was actually written out would count against the limit. Now, the sparse ranges are also included, which leads to truncated core dumps when the actual disk usage is still well below the limit. Restore the old behavior by only counting what gets emitted and ignoring what gets skipped. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-12coredump: get rid of coredump_params->writtenOmar Sandoval1-5/+3
cprm->written is redundant with cprm->file->f_pos, so use that instead. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-03-22fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directoriesJann Horn1-4/+26
This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where all of the following conditions are fulfilled: - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2. - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.) - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by default using a distro patch.) Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules, causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process, allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with root privileges. To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20fs/coredump: prevent "" / "." / ".." core path componentsJann Horn1-0/+20
Let %h and %e print empty values as "!", "." as "!" and ".." as "!.". This prevents hostnames and comm values that are empty or consist of one or two dots from changing the directory level at which the corefile will be stored. Consider the case where someone decides to sort coredumps by hostname with a core pattern like "/cores/%h/core.%e.%p.%t" or so. In this case, hostnames "" and "." would cause the coredump to land directly in /cores, which is not what the intent behind the core pattern is, and ".." would cause the coredump to land in /. Yeah, there probably aren't many people who do that, but I still don't want this edgecase to be kind of broken. It seems very unlikely that this caused security issues anywhere, so I'm not requesting a stable backport. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-06coredump: Use 64bit time for unix time of coredumpArnd Bergmann1-3/+5
struct timeval on 32-bit systems will have its tv_sec value overflow in year 2038 and beyond. Use a 64 bit value to print time of the coredump in seconds. ktime_get_real_seconds is chosen here for efficiency reasons. Suggested by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-11-06coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov1-14/+13
Change zap_threads() paths to use for_each_thread() rather than while_each_thread(). While at it, change zap_threads() to avoid the nested if's to make the code more readable and lessen the indentation. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMPOleg Nesterov1-6/+6
task_will_free_mem() is wrong in many ways, and in particular the SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is not reliable: a task can participate in the coredumping without SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP bit set. change zap_threads() paths to always set SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP even if other CLONE_VM processes can't react to SIGKILL. Fortunately, at least oom-kill case if fine; it kills all tasks sharing the same mm, so it should also kill the process which actually dumps the core. The change in prepare_signal() is not strictly necessary, it just ensures that the patch does not bring another subtle behavioural change. But it reminds us that this SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/COREDUMP case needs more changes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10fs: Don't dump core if the corefile would become world-readable.Jann Horn1-2/+6
On a filesystem like vfat, all files are created with the same owner and mode independent of who created the file. When a vfat filesystem is mounted with root as owner of all files and read access for everyone, root's processes left world-readable coredumps on it (but other users' processes only left empty corefiles when given write access because of the uid mismatch). Given that the old behavior was inconsistent and insecure, I don't see a problem with changing it. Now, all processes refuse to dump core unless the resulting corefile will only be readable by their owner. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10fs: if a coredump already exists, unlink and recreate with O_EXCLJann Horn1-6/+32
It was possible for an attacking user to trick root (or another user) into writing his coredumps into an attacker-readable, pre-existing file using rename() or link(), causing the disclosure of secret data from the victim process' virtual memory. Depending on the configuration, it was also possible to trick root into overwriting system files with coredumps. Fix that issue by never writing coredumps into existing files. Requirements for the attack: - The attack only applies if the victim's process has a nonzero RLIMIT_CORE and is dumpable. - The attacker can trick the victim into coredumping into an attacker-writable directory D, either because the core_pattern is relative and the victim's cwd is attacker-writable or because an absolute core_pattern pointing to a world-writable directory is used. - The attacker has one of these: A: on a system with protected_hardlinks=0: execute access to a folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable file on the same partition as D, and the victim-owned file will be deleted before the main part of the attack takes place. (In practice, there are lots of files that fulfill this condition, e.g. entries in Debian's /var/lib/dpkg/info/.) This does not apply to most Linux systems because most distros set protected_hardlinks=1. B: on a system with protected_hardlinks=1: execute access to a folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable and attacker-writable file on the same partition as D, and the victim-owned file will be deleted before the main part of the attack takes place. (This seems to be uncommon.) C: on any system, independent of protected_hardlinks: write access to a non-sticky folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable file on the same partition as D (This seems to be uncommon.) The basic idea is that the attacker moves the victim-owned file to where he expects the victim process to dump its core. The victim process dumps its core into the existing file, and the attacker reads the coredump from it. If the attacker can't move the file because he does not have write access to the containing directory, he can instead link the file to a directory he controls, then wait for the original link to the file to be deleted (because the kernel checks that the link count of the corefile is 1). A less reliable variant that requires D to be non-sticky works with link() and does not require deletion of the original link: link() the file into D, but then unlink() it directly before the kernel performs the link count check. On systems with protected_hardlinks=0, this variant allows an attacker to not only gain information from coredumps, but also clobber existing, victim-writable files with coredumps. (This could theoretically lead to a privilege escalation.) Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-07-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes. fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work" [ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ] * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits) 9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write} p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req() 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache dax: Add block size note to documentation fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install() fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino namei: make set_root_rcu() return void make simple_positive() public ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages() pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there remove the pointless include of lglock.h fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything ...
2015-06-25coredump: add __printf attribute to cn_*printf functionsNicolas Iooss1-4/+7
This allows detecting improper format string at build time, like: fs/coredump.c:225:5: warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'int' [-Wformat=] err = cn_printf(cn, "%ld", cprm->siginfo->si_signo); ^ As si_signo is always an int, the format should be %d here. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-25coredump: use from_kuid/kgid when formatting corenameNicolas Iooss1-2/+6
When adding __printf attribute to cn_printf, gcc reports some issues: fs/coredump.c:213:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'kuid_t' [-Wformat=] err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->uid); ^ fs/coredump.c:217:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'kgid_t' [-Wformat=] err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->gid); ^ These warnings come from the fact that the value of uid/gid needs to be extracted from the kuid_t/kgid_t structure before being used as an integer. More precisely, cred->uid and cred->gid need to be converted to either user-namespace uid/gid or to init_user_ns uid/gid. Use init_user_ns in order not to break existing ABI, and document this in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. While at it, format uid and gid values with %u instead of %d because uid_t/__kernel_uid32_t and gid_t/__kernel_gid32_t are unsigned int. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-23vfs: add file_path() helperMiklos Szeredi1-1/+1
Turn d_path(&file->f_path, ...); into file_path(file, ...); Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-11coredump: accept any write methodAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-02-20coredump: Fix typo in commentBastien Nocera1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-10-14coredump: add %i/%I in core_pattern to report the tid of the crashed threadOleg Nesterov1-0/+8
format_corename() can only pass the leader's pid to the core handler, but there is no simple way to figure out which thread originated the coredump. As Jan explains, this also means that there is no simple way to create the backtrace of the crashed process: As programs are mostly compiled with implicit gcc -fomit-frame-pointer one needs program's .eh_frame section (equivalently PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment) or .debug_frame section. .debug_frame usually is present only in separate debug info files usually not even installed on the system. While .eh_frame is a part of the executable/library (and it is even always mapped for C++ exceptions unwinding) it no longer has to be present anywhere on the disk as the program could be upgraded in the meantime and the running instance has its executable file already unlinked from disk. One possibility is to echo 0x3f >/proc/*/coredump_filter and dump all the file-backed memory including the executable's .eh_frame section. But that can create huge core files, for example even due to mmapped data files. Other possibility would be to read .eh_frame from /proc/PID/mem at the core_pattern handler time of the core dump. For the backtrace one needs to read the register state first which can be done from core_pattern handler: ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tid, 0, PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT) close(0); // close pipe fd to resume the sleeping dumper waitpid(); // should report EXIT PTRACE_GETREGS or other requests The remaining problem is how to get the 'tid' value of the crashed thread. It could be read from the first NT_PRSTATUS note of the core file but that makes the core_pattern handler complicated. Unfortunately %t is already used so this patch uses %i/%I. Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (https://github.com/abrt/abrt/wiki/overview) is experimenting with this. It is using the elfutils (https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/) unwinder for generating the backtraces. Apart from not needing matching executables as mentioned above, another advantage is that we can get the backtrace without saving the core (which might be quite large) to disk. [mmilata@redhat.com: final paragraph of changelog] Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Milata <mmilata@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-23coredump: fix the setting of PF_DUMPCORESilesh C V1-1/+1
Commit 079148b919d0 ("coredump: factor out the setting of PF_DUMPCORE") cleaned up the setting of PF_DUMPCORE by removing it from all the linux_binfmt->core_dump() and moving it to zap_threads().But this ended up clearing all the previously set flags. This causes issues during core generation when tsk->flags is checked again (eg. for PF_USED_MATH to dump floating point registers). Fix this. Signed-off-by: Silesh C V <svellattu@mvista.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-19coredump: fix va_list corruptionEric Dumazet1-1/+6
A va_list needs to be copied in case it needs to be used twice. Thanks to Hugh for debugging this issue, leading to various panics. Tested: lpq84:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern 'produce_core' is simply : main() { *(int *)0 = 1;} lpq84:~# ./produce_core Segmentation fault (core dumped) lpq84:~# dmesg | tail -1 [ 614.352947] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 (null) pipe failed Notice the last argument was replaced by a NULL (we were lucky enough to not crash, but do not try this on your production machine !) After fix : lpq83:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern lpq83:~# ./produce_core Segmentation fault lpq83:~# dmesg | tail -1 [ 740.800441] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 pipe failed Fixes: 5fe9d8ca21cc ("coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twice") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Diagnosed-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.11+ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23coredump: make __get_dumpable/get_dumpable inline, kill fs/coredump.hOleg Nesterov1-1/+0
1. Remove fs/coredump.h. It is not clear why do we need it, it only declares __get_dumpable(), signal.c includes it for no reason. 2. Now that get_dumpable() and __get_dumpable() are really trivial make them inline in linux/sched.h. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15dump_emit(): use __kernel_write(), not vfs_write()Al Viro1-1/+1
the caller has already done file_start_write()... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-15dump_align(): fix the dumb brainoAl Viro1-2/+2
Mea culpa - original variant used 64-by-32-bit division, which got caught very late. Getting rid of that wasn't hard, but I'd managed to botch the calling conventions in process ;-/ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09constify do_coredump() argumentAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09new helper: dump_align()Al Viro1-0/+9
dump_skip to given alignment... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking coredump_paramsAl Viro1-29/+14
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09make dump_emit() use vfs_write() instead of banging at ->f_op->write directlyAl Viro1-5/+12
... and deal with short writes properly - the output might be to pipe, after all; as it is, e.g. no-MMU case of elf_fdpic coredump can write a whole lot more than a page worth of data at one call. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09new helper: dump_emit()Al Viro1-0/+14
dump_write() analog, takes core_dump_params instead of file, keeps track of the amount written in cprm->written and checks for cprm->limit. Start using it in binfmt_elf.c... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-24file->f_op is never NULL...Al Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-11coredump: add new %P variable in core_patternStéphane Graber1-0/+5
Add a new %P variable to be used in core_pattern. This variable contains the global PID (PID in the init namespace) as %p contains the PID in the current namespace which isn't always what we want. The main use for this is to make it easier to handle crashes that happened within a container. With that new variables it's possible to have the crashes dumped into the container or forwarded to the host with the right PID (from the host's point of view). Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com> Reported-by: Hans Feldt <hans.feldt@ericsson.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: '% at the end' shouldn't bypass core_uses_pid logicOleg Nesterov1-5/+7
"goto end" should not bypass the "Backward compatibility with core_uses_pid" code, move this label up. While at it, - It is ugly to copy '|' into cn->corename and then inc the pointer for argv_split(). Change format_corename() to increment pat_ptr instead. - Remove the dead "if (*pat_ptr == 0)" in format_corename(), we already checked it is not zero. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: kill call_count, add core_name_sizeOleg Nesterov1-9/+10
Imho, "atomic_t call_count" is ugly and should die. It buys nothing and in fact it can grow more than necessary, expand doesn't check if it was already incremented by another task. Kill it, and introduce "static int core_name_size" updated by expand_corename(). This is obviously racy too but harmless, and core_name_size never grows for no reason. We do not bother to to calculate the "right" new size, we simply do kmalloc(size_we_need) and use ksize() to rely on kmalloc_index's decision. Finally change format_corename() to use expand_corename(), krealloc(NULL) is fine. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: kill cn_escape(), introduce cn_esc_printf()Oleg Nesterov1-23/+21
The usage of cn_escape() looks really annoying, imho this sequence needs a wrapper. And it is buggy. If cn_printf() does expand_corename() cn_escape() writes to the freed memory. Introduce cn_esc_printf() which hopefully does this all right. It records the index before cn_vprintf(), not "char *" which is no longer valid (in general) after krealloc(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twiceOleg Nesterov1-18/+12
cn_vprintf() looks really overcomplicated and sub-optimal. We do not need vsnprintf(NULL) to calculate the size we need, we can simply try to print into the current buffer and expand/retry only if necessary. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: introduce cn_vprintf()Oleg Nesterov1-7/+13
Turn cn_printf(...) into cn_vprintf(va_list args), reintroduce cn_printf() as a trivial wrapper. This simplifies the next change and cn_vprintf() will have more callers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03coredump: format_corename() can leak cn->corenameOleg Nesterov1-11/+7
do_coredump() assumes that format_corename() can only fail if expand_corename() fails and frees cn->corename. This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file() can fail and in this case nobody frees cn->corename. Change do_coredump() to always do kfree(cn->corename) after it calls format_corename() (NULL is fine), change expand_corename() to do nothing if kmalloc() fails. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04do_coredump(): don't wait for thaw if coredump has already been interruptedAl Viro1-4/+5
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull VFS updates from Al Viro, Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and seq_file etc). 7kloc removed. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits) don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c ppc: Clean up scanlog ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree() drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree() drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name drm: Constify drm_proc_list[] zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show() proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent airo: Use remove_proc_subtree() rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/ proc: Add proc_mkdir_data() proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h} proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c ...
2013-04-30coredump: change wait_for_dump_helpers() to use wait_event_interruptible()Oleg Nesterov1-6/+9
wait_for_dump_helpers() calls wake_up/kill_fasync from inside the wait_event-like loop. This is not needed and in fact this is not strictly correct, we can/should do this only once after we change pipe->writers. We could even check if it becomes zero. Change this code to use use wait_event_interruptible(), this can also help to make this wait freezable. With this patch we check pipe->readers without pipe_lock(), this is fine. Once we see pipe->readers == 1 we know that the handler decremented the counter, this is all we need. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>