This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc,msg: shorten critical region in msgsnd
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgsnd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3dd1f784ed6603d7ab1043e51e6371235edf2313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:17 -0700
Subject: ipc,msg: shorten critical region in msgsnd
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
commit 3dd1f784ed6603d7ab1043e51e6371235edf2313 upstream.
do_msgsnd() is another function that does too many things with the ipc
object lock acquired. Take it only when needed when actually updating
msq.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
ipc/msg.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -698,10 +698,11 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
msg->m_type = mtype;
msg->m_ts = msgsz;
- msq = msg_lock_check(ns, msqid);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ msq = msq_obtain_object_check(ns, msqid);
if (IS_ERR(msq)) {
err = PTR_ERR(msq);
- goto out_free;
+ goto out_unlock1;
}
for (;;) {
@@ -709,11 +710,11 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
err = -EACCES;
if (ipcperms(ns, &msq->q_perm, S_IWUGO))
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock1;
err = security_msg_queue_msgsnd(msq, msg, msgflg);
if (err)
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock1;
if (msgsz + msq->q_cbytes <= msq->q_qbytes &&
1 + msq->q_qnum <= msq->q_qbytes) {
@@ -723,32 +724,41 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
/* queue full, wait: */
if (msgflg & IPC_NOWAIT) {
err = -EAGAIN;
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock1;
}
+
+ ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
ss_add(msq, &s);
if (!ipc_rcu_getref(msq)) {
err = -EIDRM;
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock0;
}
- msg_unlock(msq);
+ ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
schedule();
- ipc_lock_by_ptr(&msq->q_perm);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+
ipc_rcu_putref(msq);
if (msq->q_perm.deleted) {
err = -EIDRM;
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock0;
}
+
ss_del(&s);
if (signal_pending(current)) {
err = -ERESTARTNOHAND;
- goto out_unlock_free;
+ goto out_unlock0;
}
+
+ ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
}
+ ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
msq->q_lspid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
msq->q_stime = get_seconds();
@@ -764,9 +774,10 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, vo
err = 0;
msg = NULL;
-out_unlock_free:
- msg_unlock(msq);
-out_free:
+out_unlock0:
+ ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+out_unlock1:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (msg != NULL)
free_msg(msg);
return err;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgctl_down.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-remove-unused-functions.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-msgctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-rcu-lock-out-of-ipc_addid.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgsnd.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-introduce-ipc-object-locking-helpers.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgrcv.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-make-msgctl_nolock-lockless.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-locking-out-of-ipcctl_pre_down_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-close-open-coded-spin-lock-calls.patch
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