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linux/ipc
Linus Torvalds 6d49dab8ae ipc: move rcu_read_unlock() out of sem_unlock() and into callers
The IPC locking is a mess, and sem_unlock() unlocks not only the
semaphore spinlock, it also drops the rcu read lock.  Unlike sem_lock(),
which just gets the spin-lock, and expects the caller to get the rcu
read lock.

This all makes things very hard to follow, and it's very confusing when
you take the rcu read lock in one function, and then release it in
another.  And it has caused actual bugs: the sem_obtain_lock() function
ended up dropping the RCU read lock twice in one error path, because it
first did the sem_unlock(), and then did a rcu_read_unlock() to match
the rcu_read_lock() it had done.

This is just a totally mindless "remove rcu_read_unlock() from
sem_unlock() and add it immediately after each caller" (except for the
aforementioned bug where we did too many rcu_read_unlock(), and in
find_alloc_undo() where we just got the rcu_read_lock() to correct for
the fact that sem_unlock would immediately drop it again).

We can (and should) clean things up further, but this fixes the bug with
the minimal amount of subtlety.

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 11:24:00 -07:00
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compat_mq.c ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
compat.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id 2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00
ipcns_notifier.c
Makefile Add generic sys_ipc wrapper 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
mq_sysctl.c mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
mqueue.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-03-28 13:43:46 -07:00
msg.c ipc/msg.c: use list_for_each_entry_[safe] for list traversing 2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
msgutil.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
namespace.c proc: Split the namespace stuff out into linux/proc_ns.h 2013-05-01 17:29:39 -04:00
sem.c ipc: move rcu_read_unlock() out of sem_unlock() and into callers 2013-05-04 11:24:00 -07:00
shm.c ipc: sysv shared memory limited to 8TiB 2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
syscall.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
util.c ipc_schedule_free() can do vfree() directly now 2013-05-02 08:03:33 -07:00
util.h ipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop 2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00