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    ipc/msg.c: Fix lost wakeup in msgsnd(). · bebcb928
    Manfred Spraul authored
    
    
    The check if the queue is full and adding current to the wait queue of
    pending msgsnd() operations (ss_add()) must be atomic.
    
    Otherwise:
     - the thread that performs msgsnd() finds a full queue and decides to
       sleep.
     - the thread that performs msgrcv() first reads all messages from the
       queue and then sleeps, because the queue is empty.
     - the msgrcv() calls do not perform any wakeups, because the msgsnd()
       task has not yet called ss_add().
     - then the msgsnd()-thread first calls ss_add() and then sleeps.
    
    Net result: msgsnd() and msgrcv() both sleep forever.
    
    Observed with msgctl08 from ltp with a preemptible kernel.
    
    Fix: Call ipc_lock_object() before performing the check.
    
    The patch also moves security_msg_queue_msgsnd() under ipc_lock_object:
     - msgctl(IPC_SET) explicitely mentions that it tries to expunge any
       pending operations that are not allowed anymore with the new
       permissions.  If security_msg_queue_msgsnd() is called without locks,
       then there might be races.
     - it makes the patch much simpler.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # for 3.11
    Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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