tree 8c0e0c31fa3a60834b893c531355a925b7ce454a
parent 11df6dddcbc38affb7473aad3d962baf8414a947
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1257163316 +0100
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1257174159 +0100

uids: Prevent tear down race

Ingo triggered the following warning:

WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:255 debug_print_object+0x42/0x50()
Hardware name: System Product Name
ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2619, comm: dmesg Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-rc5-tip+ #5298
Call Trace:
 [<81035443>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
 [<8120e483>] ? debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
 [<81035498>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
 [<8120e483>] debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
 [<8120ec2a>] __debug_object_init+0x279/0x2d7
 [<8120ecb3>] debug_object_init+0x13/0x18
 [<810409d2>] init_timer_key+0x17/0x6f
 [<81041526>] free_uid+0x50/0x6c
 [<8104ed2d>] put_cred_rcu+0x61/0x72
 [<81067fac>] rcu_do_batch+0x70/0x121

debugobjects warns about an enqueued timer being initialized. If
CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y the user management code uses delayed work to
remove the user from the hash table and tear down the sysfs objects.

free_uid is called from RCU and initializes/schedules delayed work if
the usage count of the user_struct is 0. The init/schedule happens
outside of the uidhash_lock protected region which allows a concurrent
caller of find_user() to reference the about to be destroyed
user_struct w/o preventing the work from being scheduled. If the next
free_uid call happens before the work timer expired then the active
timer is initialized and the work scheduled again.

The race was introduced in commit 5cb350ba (sched: group scheduling,
sysfs tunables) and made more prominent by commit 3959214f (sched:
delayed cleanup of user_struct)

Move the init/schedule_delayed_work inside of the uidhash_lock
protected region to prevent the race.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org