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authorChen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>2013-06-12 14:05:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-06-12 16:29:46 -0700
commit736f3203a06eafd0944103775a98584082744c6b (patch)
treee0d42a615dd56a7e8ae301e3ccbb8a074b33273e /kernel
parent30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc (diff)
kernel/audit_tree.c:audit_add_tree_rule(): protect `rule' from kill_rules()
audit_add_tree_rule() must set 'rule->tree = NULL;' firstly, to protect the rule itself freed in kill_rules(). The reason is when it is killed, the 'rule' itself may have already released, we should not access it. one example: we add a rule to an inode, just at the same time the other task is deleting this inode. The work flow for adding a rule: audit_receive() -> (need audit_cmd_mutex lock) audit_receive_skb() -> audit_receive_msg() -> audit_receive_filter() -> audit_add_rule() -> audit_add_tree_rule() -> (need audit_filter_mutex lock) ... unlock audit_filter_mutex get_tree() ... iterate_mounts() -> (iterate all related inodes) tag_mount() -> tag_trunk() -> create_trunk() -> (assume it is 1st rule) fsnotify_add_mark() -> fsnotify_add_inode_mark() -> (add mark to inode->i_fsnotify_marks) ... get_tree(); (each inode will get one) ... lock audit_filter_mutex The work flow for deleting an inode: __destroy_inode() -> fsnotify_inode_delete() -> __fsnotify_inode_delete() -> fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode() -> (get mark from inode->i_fsnotify_marks) fsnotify_destroy_mark() -> fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() -> audit_tree_freeing_mark() -> evict_chunk() -> ... tree->goner = 1 ... kill_rules() -> (assume current->audit_context == NULL) call_rcu() -> (rule->tree != NULL) audit_free_rule_rcu() -> audit_free_rule() ... audit_schedule_prune() -> (assume current->audit_context == NULL) kthread_run() -> (need audit_cmd_mutex and audit_filter_mutex lock) prune_one() -> (delete it from prue_list) put_tree(); (match the original get_tree above) Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit_tree.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
index a291aa23fb3..43c307dc945 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule)
struct vfsmount *mnt;
int err;
+ rule->tree = NULL;
list_for_each_entry(tree, &tree_list, list) {
if (!strcmp(seed->pathname, tree->pathname)) {
put_tree(seed);