[PATCH 10/14] audit: Guarantee forward progress of chunk untagging

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 19:29:38 UTC 2018


On 2018-10-17 12:15, Jan Kara wrote:
> When removing chunk from a tree, we do shrink the chunk. This can fail
> for various reasons (due to races, ENOMEM, etc.) and in some cases we
> just bail from untag_chunk() relying on someone else to cleanup.
> Although this currently works, later we will need to add new failure
> situation which would break. Also this simplifies the code and will
> allow us to make locking around untag_chunk() less awkward.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> ---
>  kernel/audit_tree.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> index c98ab2d68a1c..ca2b6baff7aa 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> @@ -309,16 +309,28 @@ static void replace_chunk(struct audit_chunk *new, struct audit_chunk *old,
>  	list_replace_rcu(&old->hash, &new->hash);
>  }
>  
> +static void remove_chunk_node(struct audit_chunk *chunk, struct node *p)
> +{
> +	struct audit_tree *owner = p->owner;
> +
> +	if (owner->root == chunk) {
> +		list_del_init(&owner->same_root);
> +		owner->root = NULL;
> +	}
> +	list_del_init(&p->list);
> +	p->owner = NULL;
> +	put_tree(owner);
> +}
> +
>  static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
>  {
>  	struct audit_chunk *chunk = find_chunk(p);
>  	struct fsnotify_mark *entry = chunk->mark;
>  	struct audit_chunk *new = NULL;
> -	struct audit_tree *owner;
>  	int size = chunk->count - 1;
>  
> +	remove_chunk_node(chunk, p);
>  	fsnotify_get_mark(entry);
> -
>  	spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
>  
>  	if (size)
> @@ -336,15 +348,10 @@ static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> -	owner = p->owner;
> -
>  	if (!size) {
>  		chunk->dead = 1;
>  		spin_lock(&hash_lock);
>  		list_del_init(&chunk->trees);
> -		if (owner->root == chunk)
> -			owner->root = NULL;
> -		list_del_init(&p->list);
>  		list_del_rcu(&chunk->hash);
>  		spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
>  		fsnotify_detach_mark(entry);
> @@ -354,21 +361,16 @@ static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!new)
> -		goto Fallback;
> +		goto out_mutex;
>  
>  	if (fsnotify_add_mark_locked(new->mark, entry->connector->obj,
>  				     FSNOTIFY_OBJ_TYPE_INODE, 1)) {
>  		fsnotify_put_mark(new->mark);
> -		goto Fallback;
> +		goto out_mutex;
>  	}
>  
>  	chunk->dead = 1;
>  	spin_lock(&hash_lock);
> -	if (owner->root == chunk) {
> -		list_del_init(&owner->same_root);
> -		owner->root = NULL;
> -	}
> -	list_del_init(&p->list);
>  	/*
>  	 * This has to go last when updating chunk as once replace_chunk() is
>  	 * called, new RCU readers can see the new chunk.
> @@ -381,17 +383,7 @@ static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
>  	fsnotify_put_mark(new->mark);	/* drop initial reference */
>  	goto out;
>  
> -Fallback:
> -	// do the best we can
> -	spin_lock(&hash_lock);
> -	if (owner->root == chunk) {
> -		list_del_init(&owner->same_root);
> -		owner->root = NULL;
> -	}
> -	list_del_init(&p->list);
> -	p->owner = NULL;
> -	put_tree(owner);
> -	spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
> +out_mutex:
>  	mutex_unlock(&entry->group->mark_mutex);
>  out:
>  	fsnotify_put_mark(entry);
> -- 
> 2.16.4
> 

- RGB

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Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems
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