linux-stable.git/kernel/time/posix-clock.c, branch v4.14.331

ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev

2020-01-04T13:00:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit a33121e5487b424339636b25c35d3a180eaa5f5e ]

In a case when a ptp chardev (like /dev/ptp0) is open but an underlying
device is removed, closing this file leads to a race. This reproduces
easily in a kvm virtual machine:

ts# cat openptp0.c
int main() { ... fp = fopen("/dev/ptp0", "r"); ... sleep(10); }
ts# uname -r
5.5.0-rc3-46cf053e
ts# cat /proc/cmdline
... slub_debug=FZP
ts# modprobe ptp_kvm
ts# ./openptp0 &
[1] 670
opened /dev/ptp0, sleeping 10s...
ts# rmmod ptp_kvm
ts# ls /dev/ptp*
ls: cannot access '/dev/ptp*': No such file or directory
ts# ...woken up
[   48.010809] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   48.012502] CPU: 6 PID: 658 Comm: openptp0 Not tainted 5.5.0-rc3-46cf053e #25
[   48.014624] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[   48.016270] RIP: 0010:module_put.part.0+0x7/0x80
[   48.017939] RSP: 0018:ffffb3850073be00 EFLAGS: 00010202
[   48.018339] RAX: 000000006b6b6b6b RBX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RCX: ffff89a476c00ad0
[   48.018936] RDX: fffff65a08d3ea08 RSI: 0000000000000247 RDI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
[   48.019470] ...                                              ^^^ a slub poison
[   48.023854] Call Trace:
[   48.024050]  __fput+0x21f/0x240
[   48.024288]  task_work_run+0x79/0x90
[   48.024555]  do_exit+0x2af/0xab0
[   48.024799]  ? vfs_write+0x16a/0x190
[   48.025082]  do_group_exit+0x35/0x90
[   48.025387]  __x64_sys_exit_group+0xf/0x10
[   48.025737]  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x130
[   48.026056]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[   48.026479] RIP: 0033:0x7f53b12082f6
[   48.026792] ...
[   48.030945] Modules linked in: ptp i6300esb watchdog [last unloaded: ptp_kvm]
[   48.045001] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

This happens in:

static void __fput(struct file *file)
{   ...
    if (file->f_op->release)
        file->f_op->release(inode, file); <<< cdev is kfree'd here
    if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL &&
             !(mode & FMODE_PATH))) {
        cdev_put(inode->i_cdev); <<< cdev fields are accessed here

Namely:

__fput()
  posix_clock_release()
    kref_put(&clk->kref, delete_clock) <<< the last reference
      delete_clock()
        delete_ptp_clock()
          kfree(ptp) <<< cdev is embedded in ptp
  cdev_put
    module_put(p->owner) <<< *p is kfree'd, bang!

Here cdev is embedded in posix_clock which is embedded in ptp_clock.
The race happens because ptp_clock's lifetime is controlled by two
refcounts: kref and cdev.kobj in posix_clock. This is wrong.

Make ptp_clock's sysfs device a parent of cdev with cdev_device_add()
created especially for such cases. This way the parent device with its
ptp_clock is not released until all references to the cdev are released.
This adds a requirement that an initialized but not exposed struct
device should be provided to posix_clock_register() by a caller instead
of a simple dev_t.

This approach was adopted from the commit 72139dfa2464 ("watchdog: Fix
the race between the release of watchdog_core_data and cdev"). See
details of the implementation in the commit 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add
helper function to register char devs with a struct device").

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20191125125342.6189-1-vdronov@redhat.com/T/#u
Analyzed-by: Stephen Johnston 
Analyzed-by: Vern Lovejoy 
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov 
Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

posix-timers: Move posix-timer internals to core

2017-06-04T13:40:23+00:00

None of these declarations is required outside of kernel/time. Move them to
an internal header.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.394803853@linutronix.de

posix-clocks: Remove interval timer facility and mmap/fasync callbacks

2017-06-04T13:40:22+00:00

The only user of this facility is ptp_clock, which does not implement any of
those functions.

Remove them to prevent accidental users. Especially the interval timer
interfaces are now more or less impossible to implement because the
necessary infrastructure has been confined to the core code. Aside of that
it's really complex to make these callbacks implemented according to spec
as the alarm timer implementation demonstrates. If at all then a nanosleep
callback might be a reasonable extension. For now keep just what ptp_clock
needs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: John Stultz 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.145036286@linutronix.de

posix-timers: Make posix_clocks immutable

2017-05-27T07:46:35+00:00

There are no more modular users providing a posix clock. The register
function is now pointless so the posix clock array can be initialized
statically at compile time and the array including the various k_clock
structs can be marked 'const'.

Inspired by changes in the Grsecurity patch set, but done proper.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and fixed the POSIX_TIMER=n case ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Mike Travis 
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-3-hch@lst.de

time: Change k_clock timer_set() and timer_get() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:56+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

struct itimerspec internally uses struct timespec.  Use struct itimerspec64
which uses struct timespec64.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-7-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock clock_set() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:56+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-6-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock clock_getres() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:55+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall
interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

The clock_getres() interface has also been changed to use timespec64 even
though this particular interface is not affected by the y2038 problem. This
helps verification for internal kernel code for y2038 readiness by getting
rid of time_t/ timeval/ timespec completely.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-5-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock clock_get() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:55+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-4-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change posix clocks ops interfaces to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:54+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.

The posix clocks apis use struct timespec directly and through struct
itimerspec.

Replace the posix clock interfaces to use struct timespec64 and struct
itimerspec64 instead.  Also fix up their implementations accordingly.

Note that the clock_getres() interface has also been changed to use
timespec64 even though this particular interface is not affected by the
y2038 problem. This helps verification for internal kernel code for y2038
readiness by getting rid of time_t/ timeval/ timespec.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path

2015-12-29T10:33:06+00:00

The posix_clock_poll function is supposed to return a bit mask of
POLLxxx values.  However, in case the hardware has disappeared (due to
hot plugging for example) this code returns -ENODEV in a futile
attempt to throw an error at the file descriptor level.  The kernel's
file_operations interface does not accept such error codes from the
poll method.  Instead, this function aught to return POLLERR.

The value -ENODEV does, in fact, contain the POLLERR bit (and almost
all the other POLLxxx bits as well), but only by chance.  This patch
fixes code to return a proper bit mask.

Credit goes to Markus Elfring for pointing out the suspicious
signed/unsigned mismatch.

Reported-by: Markus Elfring 
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner