This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
to the 3.11-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-document-general-ipc-locking-scheme.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 05603c44a7627793219b0bd9a7b236099dc9cd9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:26:26 -0700
Subject: ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
commit 05603c44a7627793219b0bd9a7b236099dc9cd9d upstream.
As suggested by Andrew, add a generic initial locking scheme used
throughout all sysv ipc mechanisms. Documenting the ids rwsem, how rcu
can be enough to do the initial checks and when to actually acquire the
kern_ipc_perm.lock spinlock.
I found that adding it to util.c was generic enough.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[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/util.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
* Jun 2006 - namespaces ssupport
* OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
* Pavel Emelianov <[email protected]>
+ *
+ * General sysv ipc locking scheme:
+ * when doing ipc id lookups, take the ids->rwsem
+ * rcu_read_lock()
+ * obtain the ipc object (kern_ipc_perm)
+ * perform security, capabilities, auditing and permission checks,
etc.
+ * acquire the ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) throught
ipc_lock_object()
+ * perform data updates (ie: SET, RMID, LOCK/UNLOCK commands)
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_by_ptr.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-msg-drop-msg_unlock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-in-shmctl_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-rename-ids-rw_mutex.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmat.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-shmctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-document-general-ipc-locking-scheme.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-drop-shm_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-guard-against-non-existant-vma-in-shmdt-2.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-cleanup-do_shmat-pasta.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-make-shmctl_nolock-lockless.patch
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