ipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list locking

The attached patch:
- reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock:
  Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock.
  Now it's the other way around.
- converts the undo structure to rcu.

Benefits:
- With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures.
  The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later.
- The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that
  recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock,
  then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sem.h b/include/linux/sem.h
index d425993..1b191c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sem.h
+++ b/include/linux/sem.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct  seminfo {
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 struct task_struct;
 
@@ -114,7 +115,10 @@ struct sem_queue {
  * when the process exits.
  */
 struct sem_undo {
-	struct list_head	list_proc;	/* per-process list: all undos from one process */
+	struct list_head	list_proc;	/* per-process list: all undos from one process. */
+						/* rcu protected */
+	struct rcu_head		rcu;		/* rcu struct for sem_undo() */
+	struct sem_undo_list	*ulp;		/* sem_undo_list for the process */
 	struct list_head	list_id;	/* per semaphore array list: all undos for one array */
 	int			semid;		/* semaphore set identifier */
 	short *			semadj;		/* array of adjustments, one per semaphore */