From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:48:31 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Input: uinput - fix race that can block nonblocking read
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22ae19c6e3c22b390952e90f452f26adad9b8687;p=linux-beck.git

Input: uinput - fix race that can block nonblocking read

Consider two threads calling read() on the same uinput-fd, both
non-blocking. Assume there is data-available so both will simultaneously
pass:
	udev->head == udev->tail

Then the first thread goes to sleep and the second one pops the message
from the queue. Now assume udev->head == udev->tail. If the first thread
wakes up it will call wait_event_*() and sleep in the waitq. This
effectively turns the non-blocking FD into a blocking one.

We fix this by attempting to fetch events from the queue first and only
if we fail to retrieve any events we either return -EAGAIN (in case of
non-blocing read) or wait until there are more events.

This also fixes incorrect return code (we were returning 0 instead of
 -EAGAIN for non-blocking reads) when an event is "stolen" by another
thread. Blocking reads will now continue to wait instead of returning 0
in this scenario.

Count of 0 continues to be a special case, as per spec: we will check for
device existence and whether there are events in the queue, but no events
will be actually retrieved.

Reported-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
---

diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
index e74ed9cc6371..1719554fe194 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ static ssize_t uinput_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, size_t
 	struct uinput_device *udev = file->private_data;
 	int retval;
 
+	if (count == 0)
+		return 0;
+
 	retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&udev->mutex);
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
@@ -470,48 +473,59 @@ static bool uinput_fetch_next_event(struct uinput_device *udev,
 	return have_event;
 }
 
-static ssize_t uinput_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+static ssize_t uinput_events_to_user(struct uinput_device *udev,
+				     char __user *buffer, size_t count)
 {
-	struct uinput_device *udev = file->private_data;
 	struct input_event event;
-	int retval = 0;
+	size_t read = 0;
+	int error = 0;
 
-	if (count != 0 && count < input_event_size())
-		return -EINVAL;
+	while (read + input_event_size() <= count &&
+	       uinput_fetch_next_event(udev, &event)) {
 
-	if (udev->state != UIST_CREATED)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		if (input_event_to_user(buffer + read, &event)) {
+			error = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
 
-	if (udev->head == udev->tail && (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK))
-		return -EAGAIN;
+		read += input_event_size();
+	}
 
-	retval = wait_event_interruptible(udev->waitq,
-			udev->head != udev->tail || udev->state != UIST_CREATED);
-	if (retval)
-		return retval;
+	return read ?: error;
+}
 
-	retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&udev->mutex);
-	if (retval)
-		return retval;
+static ssize_t uinput_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
+			   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	struct uinput_device *udev = file->private_data;
+	ssize_t retval;
 
-	if (udev->state != UIST_CREATED) {
-		retval = -ENODEV;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (count != 0 && count < input_event_size())
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	while (retval + input_event_size() <= count &&
-	       uinput_fetch_next_event(udev, &event)) {
+	do {
+		retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&udev->mutex);
+		if (retval)
+			return retval;
 
-		if (input_event_to_user(buffer + retval, &event)) {
-			retval = -EFAULT;
-			goto out;
-		}
+		if (udev->state != UIST_CREATED)
+			retval = -ENODEV;
+		else if (udev->head == udev->tail &&
+			 (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK))
+			retval = -EAGAIN;
+		else
+			retval = uinput_events_to_user(udev, buffer, count);
 
-		retval += input_event_size();
-	}
+		mutex_unlock(&udev->mutex);
 
- out:
-	mutex_unlock(&udev->mutex);
+		if (retval || count == 0)
+			break;
+
+		if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK))
+			retval = wait_event_interruptible(udev->waitq,
+						  udev->head != udev->tail ||
+						  udev->state != UIST_CREATED);
+	} while (retval == 0);
 
 	return retval;
 }