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ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
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While the INFO cmd doesn't take the ipc lock, the STAT commands do acquire
it unnecessarily.  We can do the permissions and security checks only
holding the rcu lock.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
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: 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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19 changes: 12 additions & 7 deletions ipc/shm.c
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Expand Up @@ -882,27 +882,31 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
struct shmid64_ds tbuf;
int result;

rcu_read_lock();
if (cmd == SHM_STAT) {
shp = shm_lock(ns, shmid);
shp = shm_obtain_object(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
goto out;
goto out_unlock;
}
result = shp->shm_perm.id;
} else {
shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
goto out;
goto out_unlock;
}
result = 0;
}

err = -EACCES;
if (ipcperms(ns, &shp->shm_perm, S_IRUGO))
goto out_unlock;

err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd);
if (err)
goto out_unlock;

memset(&tbuf, 0, sizeof(tbuf));
kernel_to_ipc64_perm(&shp->shm_perm, &tbuf.shm_perm);
tbuf.shm_segsz = shp->shm_segsz;
Expand All @@ -912,8 +916,9 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
tbuf.shm_cpid = shp->shm_cprid;
tbuf.shm_lpid = shp->shm_lprid;
tbuf.shm_nattch = shp->shm_nattch;
shm_unlock(shp);
if(copy_shmid_to_user (buf, &tbuf, version))
rcu_read_unlock();

if (copy_shmid_to_user(buf, &tbuf, version))
err = -EFAULT;
else
err = result;
Expand All @@ -924,7 +929,7 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
}

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