ipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl

Various forms of ipc use ipcctl_pre_down() to retrieve an ipc object and
check permissions, mostly for IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands.

Introduce ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(), a lockless version of this function.
The locking version is retained, yet modified to call the nolock version
without affecting its semantics, thus transparent to all ipc callers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 813804e..3df0af3 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -824,11 +824,28 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
 				      struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm)
 {
 	struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp;
+
+	ipcp = ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(ns, ids, id, cmd, perm, extra_perm);
+	if (IS_ERR(ipcp))
+		goto out;
+
+	spin_lock(&ipcp->lock);
+out:
+	return ipcp;
+}
+
+struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
+					     struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
+					     struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm)
+{
 	kuid_t euid;
-	int err;
+	int err = -EPERM;
+	struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp;
 
 	down_write(&ids->rw_mutex);
-	ipcp = ipc_lock_check(ids, id);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	ipcp = ipc_obtain_object_check(ids, id);
 	if (IS_ERR(ipcp)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(ipcp);
 		goto out_up;
@@ -837,17 +854,21 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
 	audit_ipc_obj(ipcp);
 	if (cmd == IPC_SET)
 		audit_ipc_set_perm(extra_perm, perm->uid,
-					 perm->gid, perm->mode);
+				   perm->gid, perm->mode);
 
 	euid = current_euid();
 	if (uid_eq(euid, ipcp->cuid) || uid_eq(euid, ipcp->uid)  ||
 	    ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return ipcp;
 
-	err = -EPERM;
-	ipc_unlock(ipcp);
 out_up:
+	/*
+	 * Unsuccessful lookup, unlock and return
+	 * the corresponding error.
+	 */
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	up_write(&ids->rw_mutex);
+
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index bfc8d4e..13d92fe 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_obtain_object(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
 void kernel_to_ipc64_perm(struct kern_ipc_perm *in, struct ipc64_perm *out);
 void ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct ipc_perm *out);
 int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct kern_ipc_perm *out);
+struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
+					     struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
+					     struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);
 struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
 				      struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
 				      struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);