From c02e3f361c75da04ca3025b4d19e947e9cc62ed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Horman Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code The user mode helper code has a race in it. call_usermodehelper_exec() takes an allocated subprocess_info structure, which it passes to a workqueue, and then passes it to a kernel thread which it creates, after which it calls complete to signal to the caller of call_usermodehelper_exec() that it can free the subprocess_info struct. But since we use that structure in the created thread, we can't call complete from __call_usermodehelper(), which is where we create the kernel thread. We need to call complete() from within the kernel thread and then not use subprocess_info afterward in the case of UMH_WAIT_EXEC. Tested successfully by me. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kmod.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 9fcb53a11f8..689d20f3930 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ struct subprocess_info { static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data) { struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data; + enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait; int retval; BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1); @@ -184,10 +185,14 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data) */ set_user_nice(current, 0); + if (wait == UMH_WAIT_EXEC) + complete(sub_info->complete); + retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp); /* Exec failed? */ - sub_info->retval = retval; + if (wait != UMH_WAIT_EXEC) + sub_info->retval = retval; do_exit(0); } @@ -266,16 +271,14 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work) switch (wait) { case UMH_NO_WAIT: + case UMH_WAIT_EXEC: break; case UMH_WAIT_PROC: if (pid > 0) break; sub_info->retval = pid; - /* FALLTHROUGH */ - - case UMH_WAIT_EXEC: - complete(sub_info->complete); + break; } }