The patch titled
     ipc/sem.c: fix race with concurrent semtimedop() timeouts and IPC_RMID
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     ipc-semc-fix-race-with-concurrent-semtimedop-timeouts-and-ipc_rmid.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: ipc/sem.c: fix race with concurrent semtimedop() timeouts and IPC_RMID
From: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>

If a semaphore array is removed and in parallel a sleeping task is woken
up (signal or timeout, does not matter), then the woken up task does not
wait until wake_up_sem_queue_do() is completed.  This will cause crashes,
because wake_up_sem_queue_do() will read from a stale pointer.

The fix is simple: Regardless of anything, always call get_queue_result().
This function waits until wake_up_sem_queue_do() has finished it's task.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27142

Reported-by: Yuriy Yevtukhov <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Harald Laabs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>         [2.6.35+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 ipc/sem.c |   13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
ipc/sem.c~ipc-semc-fix-race-with-concurrent-semtimedop-timeouts-and-ipc_rmid 
ipc/sem.c
--- 
a/ipc/sem.c~ipc-semc-fix-race-with-concurrent-semtimedop-timeouts-and-ipc_rmid
+++ a/ipc/sem.c
@@ -1450,15 +1450,24 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(semtimedop, int, semid, 
        }
 
        sma = sem_lock(ns, semid);
+
+       /*
+        * Wait until it's guaranteed that no wakeup_sem_queue_do() is ongoing.
+        */
+       error = get_queue_result(&queue);
+
+       /*
+        * Array removed? If yes, leave without sem_unlock().
+        */
        if (IS_ERR(sma)) {
                error = -EIDRM;
                goto out_free;
        }
 
-       error = get_queue_result(&queue);
 
        /*
-        * If queue.status != -EINTR we are woken up by another process
+        * If queue.status != -EINTR we are woken up by another process.
+        * Leave without unlink_queue(), but with sem_unlock().
         */
 
        if (error != -EINTR) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

origin.patch
ipc-mqueue-refactor-failure-handling.patch
ipc-mqueue-fix-mq_open-return-value.patch
slab-leaks3-default-y.patch

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