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Al Viro 345af5abca missing barriers in some of unix_sock ->addr and ->path accesses
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Several u->addr and u->path users are not holding any locks in
common with unix_bind().  unix_state_lock() is useless for those
purposes.

u->addr is assign-once and *(u->addr) is fully set up by the time
we set u->addr (all under unix_table_lock).  u->path is also
set in the same critical area, also before setting u->addr, and
any unix_sock with ->path filled will have non-NULL ->addr.

So setting ->addr with smp_store_release() is all we need for those
"lockless" users - just have them fetch ->addr with smp_load_acquire()
and don't even bother looking at ->path if they see NULL ->addr.

Users of ->addr and ->path fall into several classes now:
    1) ones that do smp_load_acquire(u->addr) and access *(u->addr)
and u->path only if smp_load_acquire() has returned non-NULL.
    2) places holding unix_table_lock.  These are guaranteed that
*(u->addr) is seen fully initialized.  If unix_sock is in one of the
"bound" chains, so's ->path.
    3) unix_sock_destructor() using ->addr is safe.  All places
that set u->addr are guaranteed to have seen all stores *(u->addr)
while holding a reference to u and unix_sock_destructor() is called
when (atomic) refcount hits zero.
    4) unix_release_sock() using ->path is safe.  unix_bind()
is serialized wrt unix_release() (normally - by struct file
refcount), and for the instances that had ->path set by unix_bind()
unix_release_sock() comes from unix_release(), so they are fine.
Instances that had it set in unix_stream_connect() either end up
attached to a socket (in unix_accept()), in which case the call
chain to unix_release_sock() and serialization are the same as in
the previous case, or they never get accept'ed and unix_release_sock()
is called when the listener is shut down and its queue gets purged.
In that case the listener's queue lock provides the barriers needed -
unix_stream_connect() shoves our unix_sock into listener's queue
under that lock right after having set ->path and eventual
unix_release_sock() caller picks them from that queue under the
same lock right before calling unix_release_sock().
    5) unix_find_other() use of ->path is pointless, but safe -
it happens with successful lookup by (abstract) name, so ->path.dentry
is guaranteed to be NULL there.

earlier-variant-reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-03-19 13:12:41 +01:00
arch perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort 2019-03-13 14:02:41 -07:00
block blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter 2019-03-13 14:02:38 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto net: crypto set sk to NULL when af_alg_release. 2019-02-23 09:07:24 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: add "atmel,24c2048" compatible string 2019-02-20 10:25:35 +01:00
drivers bonding: fix PACKET_ORIGDEV regression 2019-03-19 13:12:41 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs cifs: allow calling SMB2_xxx_free(NULL) 2019-03-13 14:02:40 -07:00
include drm: disable uncached DMA optimization for ARM and arm64 2019-03-13 14:02:40 -07:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:40:34 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel bpf: Fix syscall's stackmap lookup potential deadlock 2019-03-13 14:02:36 -07:00
lib lib/test_kmod.c: potential double free in error handling 2019-03-13 14:02:32 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm, memory_hotplug: fix off-by-one in is_pageblock_removable 2019-03-13 14:02:32 -07:00
net missing barriers in some of unix_sock ->addr and ->path accesses 2019-03-19 13:12:41 +01:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output 2019-02-12 19:47:20 +01:00
security missing barriers in some of unix_sock ->addr and ->path accesses 2019-03-19 13:12:41 +01:00
sound ASoC: imx-audmux: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow 2019-03-05 17:58:47 +01:00
tools perf trace: Support multiple "vfs_getname" probes 2019-03-13 14:02:37 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt kvm: fix kvm_ioctl_create_device() reference counting (CVE-2019-6974) 2019-02-12 19:47:25 +01:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.29 2019-03-13 14:02:41 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.