Fix a race condition in FASYNC handling

Changeset a238b790d5f99c7832f9b73ac8847025815b85f7 (Call fasync()
functions without the BKL) introduced a race which could leave
file->f_flags in a state inconsistent with what the underlying
driver/filesystem believes.  Revert that change, and also fix the same
races in ioctl_fioasync() and ioctl_fionbio().

This is a minimal, short-term fix; the real fix will not involve the
BKL.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index ac4f7db..549daf8 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/signal.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/poll.h>
 #include <asm/siginfo.h>
@@ -175,6 +176,11 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
+	/*
+	 * We still need a lock here for now to keep multiple FASYNC calls
+	 * from racing with each other.
+	 */
+	lock_kernel();
 	if ((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) {
 		if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) {
 			error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, (arg & FASYNC) != 0);
@@ -185,6 +191,7 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
 
 	filp->f_flags = (arg & SETFL_MASK) | (filp->f_flags & ~SETFL_MASK);
  out:
+	unlock_kernel();
 	return error;
 }