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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-04 13:28:31 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-04-02 17:34:21 +0300
commite52694b56eb6d4b1fe424bda6126b8ce13c246a8 (patch)
treeb35d00605eeeac7fa378fdc200dd7fedbf40805c /include/linux
parentdafda49dfbf600de7d8d68d79b7b36df59c84584 (diff)
downloadlinux-e52694b56eb6d4b1fe424bda6126b8ce13c246a8.tar.xz
futex: Fix inode life-time issue
commit 8019ad13ef7f64be44d4f892af9c840179009254 upstream. As reported by Jann, ihold() does not in fact guarantee inode persistence. And instead of making it so, replace the usage of inode pointers with a per boot, machine wide, unique inode identifier. This sequence number is global, but shared (file backed) futexes are rare enough that this should not become a performance issue. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/futex.h17
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f0fddf4ea828..a94642fcf93b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ struct inode {
struct rcu_head i_rcu;
};
u64 i_version;
+ atomic64_t i_sequence; /* see futex */
atomic_t i_count;
atomic_t i_dio_count;
atomic_t i_writecount;
diff --git a/include/linux/futex.h b/include/linux/futex.h
index a4b6cba699bf..6adb1ccac603 100644
--- a/include/linux/futex.h
+++ b/include/linux/futex.h
@@ -34,23 +34,26 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
union futex_key {
struct {
+ u64 i_seq;
unsigned long pgoff;
- struct inode *inode;
- int offset;
+ unsigned int offset;
} shared;
struct {
+ union {
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ u64 __tmp;
+ };
unsigned long address;
- struct mm_struct *mm;
- int offset;
+ unsigned int offset;
} private;
struct {
+ u64 ptr;
unsigned long word;
- void *ptr;
- int offset;
+ unsigned int offset;
} both;
};
-#define FUTEX_KEY_INIT (union futex_key) { .both = { .ptr = NULL } }
+#define FUTEX_KEY_INIT (union futex_key) { .both = { .ptr = 0ULL } }
#ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX
enum {