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ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
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Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing
the initial permission and security checks.

[[email protected]: dont leave do_shmat with rcu lock held]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Davidlohr Bueso authored and torvalds committed Sep 11, 2013
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14 changes: 10 additions & 4 deletions ipc/shm.c
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* namespaces support
* OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
* Pavel Emelianov <[email protected]>
*
* Better ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) handling
* Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>, June 2013.
*/

#include <linux/slab.h>
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* additional creator id...
*/
ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
rcu_read_lock();
shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
goto out;
goto out_unlock;
}

err = -EACCES;
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if (err)
goto out_unlock;

ipc_lock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
path = shp->shm_file->f_path;
path_get(&path);
shp->shm_nattch++;
size = i_size_read(path.dentry->d_inode);
shm_unlock(shp);
ipc_unlock_object(&shp->shm_perm);
rcu_read_unlock();

err = -ENOMEM;
sfd = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfd), GFP_KERNEL);
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return err;

out_unlock:
shm_unlock(shp);
rcu_read_unlock();
out:
return err;
}
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