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Commit e231c3cb authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Bruce Ashfield
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posix-timers: Ensure timer ID search-loop limit is valid



commit 71c09b1d6b07a7e4d8d1c686b53f8d1442f8ec14 in linux-stable-rt

posix_timer_add() tries to allocate a posix timer ID by starting from the
cached ID which was stored by the last successful allocation.

This is done in a loop searching the ID space for a free slot one by
one. The loop has to terminate when the search wrapped around to the
starting point.

But that's racy vs. establishing the starting point. That is read out
lockless, which leads to the following problem:

CPU0	  	      	     	   CPU1
posix_timer_add()
  start = sig->posix_timer_id;
  lock(hash_lock);
  ...				   posix_timer_add()
  if (++sig->posix_timer_id < 0)
      			             start = sig->posix_timer_id;
     sig->posix_timer_id = 0;

So CPU1 can observe a negative start value, i.e. -1, and the loop break
never happens because the condition can never be true:

  if (sig->posix_timer_id == start)
     break;

While this is unlikely to ever turn into an endless loop as the ID space is
huge (INT_MAX), the racy read of the start value caught the attention of
KCSAN and Dmitry unearthed that incorrectness.

Rewrite it so that all id operations are under the hash lock.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+5c54bd3eb218bb595aa9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bkhzdn6g.ffs@tglx



(cherry picked from commit 8ce8849d)
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
parent 8039b1f6
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