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authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>2013-08-01 16:32:02 +1000
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2013-08-01 16:32:02 +1000
commita711f80a220f804d98d97ec5c52404c754bd4fed (patch)
tree0afff80f52dc5dc294e2701d61719225bc4a0bcd /ipc
parentdb14d8a32c8cd0426999e0930e7128126ca1b2f0 (diff)
ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
While the INFO cmd doesn't take the ipc lock, the STAT commands do acquire it unnecessarily. We can do the permissions and security checks only holding the rcu lock. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index ce357f4f70b9..ccc57999b570 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -882,27 +882,31 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
struct shmid64_ds tbuf;
int result;
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (cmd == SHM_STAT) {
- shp = shm_lock(ns, shmid);
+ shp = shm_obtain_object(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
result = shp->shm_perm.id;
} else {
- shp = shm_lock_check(ns, shmid);
+ shp = shm_obtain_object_check(ns, shmid);
if (IS_ERR(shp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(shp);
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
result = 0;
}
+
err = -EACCES;
if (ipcperms(ns, &shp->shm_perm, S_IRUGO))
goto out_unlock;
+
err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd);
if (err)
goto out_unlock;
+
memset(&tbuf, 0, sizeof(tbuf));
kernel_to_ipc64_perm(&shp->shm_perm, &tbuf.shm_perm);
tbuf.shm_segsz = shp->shm_segsz;
@@ -912,8 +916,9 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
tbuf.shm_cpid = shp->shm_cprid;
tbuf.shm_lpid = shp->shm_lprid;
tbuf.shm_nattch = shp->shm_nattch;
- shm_unlock(shp);
- if(copy_shmid_to_user (buf, &tbuf, version))
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ if (copy_shmid_to_user (buf, &tbuf, version))
err = -EFAULT;
else
err = result;
@@ -924,7 +929,7 @@ static int shmctl_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int shmid,
}
out_unlock:
- shm_unlock(shp);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
out:
return err;
}