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futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:40:27 +0000 (11:40 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:55:26 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
commit 51246bfd189064079c54421507236fd2723b18f3 upstream.

If the owner of a PI futex dies we fix up the pi_state and set
pi_state->owner to NULL. When a malicious or just sloppy programmed
user space application sets the futex value to 0 e.g. by calling
pthread_mutex_init(), then the futex can be acquired again. A new
waiter manages to enqueue itself on the pi_state w/o damage, but on
unlock the kernel dereferences pi_state->owner and oopses.

Prevent this by checking pi_state->owner in the unlock path. If
pi_state->owner is not current we know that user space manipulated the
futex value. Ignore the mess and return -EINVAL.

This catches the above case and also the case where a task hijacks the
futex by setting the tid value and then tries to unlock it.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/futex.c

index fe062644c77607b03314991ff200bef6ebd46186..ba6d5e45d6ea50abd46821fc0e5bb19affc53c35 100644 (file)
@@ -776,6 +776,13 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this)
        if (!pi_state)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       /*
+        * If current does not own the pi_state then the futex is
+        * inconsistent and user space fiddled with the futex value.
+        */
+       if (pi_state->owner != current)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        spin_lock(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
        new_owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex);