From e1e5a9f84e4dbd3567bb8b0d5e79db6e1e5ebc35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lino Sanfilippo Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:59:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] inotify: fix race when adding a new watch In inotify_new_watch() the number of watches for a group is compared against the max number of allowed watches and increased afterwards. The check and incrementation is not done atomically, so it is possible for multiple concurrent threads to pass the check and increment the number of marks above the allowed max. This patch uses an inotify groups mark_lock to ensure that both check and incrementation are done atomic. Furthermore we dont have to worry about the race that allows a concurrent thread to add a watch just after inotify_update_existing_watch() returned with -ENOENT anymore, since this is also synchronized by the groups mark mutex now. Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index 959815c1e017..60f954a891ab 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -636,7 +636,8 @@ static int inotify_new_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group, goto out_err; /* we are on the idr, now get on the inode */ - ret = fsnotify_add_mark(&tmp_i_mark->fsn_mark, group, inode, NULL, 0); + ret = fsnotify_add_mark_locked(&tmp_i_mark->fsn_mark, group, inode, + NULL, 0); if (ret) { /* we failed to get on the inode, get off the idr */ inotify_remove_from_idr(group, tmp_i_mark); @@ -660,19 +661,13 @@ static int inotify_update_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inod { int ret = 0; -retry: + mutex_lock(&group->mark_mutex); /* try to update and existing watch with the new arg */ ret = inotify_update_existing_watch(group, inode, arg); /* no mark present, try to add a new one */ if (ret == -ENOENT) ret = inotify_new_watch(group, inode, arg); - /* - * inotify_new_watch could race with another thread which did an - * inotify_new_watch between the update_existing and the add watch - * here, go back and try to update an existing mark again. - */ - if (ret == -EEXIST) - goto retry; + mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex); return ret; } -- 2.34.1