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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2025-01-07 17:27:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-01-23 17:22:57 +0100 |
| commit | 621f95fa0b93ce93a4b2f2d9277d0e8d88833776 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b2d83c55c5d6f502ec2188c4cea6a8471d81347 /kernel/fail_function.c | |
| parent | 22be1d90a6211c88dd093b25d1f3aa974d0d9f9d (diff) | |
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poll_wait: add mb() to fix theoretical race between waitqueue_active() and .poll()
[ Upstream commit cacd9ae4bf801ff4125d8961bb9a3ba955e51680 ]
As the comment above waitqueue_active() explains, it can only be used
if both waker and waiter have mb()'s that pair with each other. However
__pollwait() is broken in this respect.
This is not pipe-specific, but let's look at pipe_poll() for example:
poll_wait(...); // -> __pollwait() -> add_wait_queue()
LOAD(pipe->head);
LOAD(pipe->head);
In theory these LOAD()'s can leak into the critical section inside
add_wait_queue() and can happen before list_add(entry, wq_head), in this
case pipe_poll() can race with wakeup_pipe_readers/writers which do
smp_mb();
if (waitqueue_active(wq_head))
wake_up_interruptible(wq_head);
There are more __pollwait()-like functions (grep init_poll_funcptr), and
it seems that at least ep_ptable_queue_proc() has the same problem, so the
patch adds smp_mb() into poll_wait().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250102163320.GA17691@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107162717.GA18922@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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