From d7fc504d906a210ae3e24741e45504c1df87035f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dann frazier Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:32:27 -0800 Subject: net: Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector (CVE-2008-5300) commit 5f23b734963ec7eaa3ebcd9050da0c9b7d143dd3 upstream. This is an implementation of David Miller's suggested fix in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 It has been updated to use wait_event() instead of wait_event_interruptible(). Paraphrasing the description from the above report, it makes sendmsg() block while UNIX garbage collection is in progress. This avoids a situation where child processes continue to queue new FDs over a AF_UNIX socket to a parent which is in the exit path and running garbage collection on these FDs. This contention can result in soft lockups and oom-killing of unrelated processes. Signed-off-by: dann frazier Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/net/af_unix.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/net/af_unix.h b/include/net/af_unix.h index c29ff1da8a18..1614d78c60ed 100644 --- a/include/net/af_unix.h +++ b/include/net/af_unix.h @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ extern void unix_inflight(struct file *fp); extern void unix_notinflight(struct file *fp); extern void unix_gc(void); +extern void wait_for_unix_gc(void); #define UNIX_HASH_SIZE 256 -- cgit v1.2.3