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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:48:26 +0200
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Convert struct pid count to refcount_t
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:35 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
<joel@...lfernandes.org> wrote:
> struct pid's count is an atomic_t field used as a refcount. Use
> refcount_t for it which is basically atomic_t but does additional
> checking to prevent use-after-free bugs.
[...]
> struct pid
> {
> - atomic_t count;
> + refcount_t count;
[...]
> diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
> index 20881598bdfa..89c4849fab5d 100644
> --- a/kernel/pid.c
> +++ b/kernel/pid.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> #include <linux/init_task.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> #include <linux/proc_ns.h>
> -#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
> +#include <linux/refcount.h>
> #include <linux/sched/task.h>
> #include <linux/idr.h>
>
> @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ void put_pid(struct pid *pid)
init_struct_pid is defined as follows:
struct pid init_struct_pid = {
.count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
[...]
};
This should be changed to REFCOUNT_INIT(1).
You should have received a compiler warning about this; I get the
following when trying to build with your patch applied:
jannh@...nh2:~/git/foreign/linux$ make kernel/pid.o
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
DESCEND objtool
CC kernel/pid.o
kernel/pid.c:44:30: warning: missing braces around initializer
[-Wmissing-braces]
struct pid init_struct_pid = {
^
kernel/pid.c:44:30: warning: missing braces around initializer
[-Wmissing-braces]
kernel/pid.c:44:30: warning: missing braces around initializer
[-Wmissing-braces]
kernel/pid.c:44:30: warning: missing braces around initializer
[-Wmissing-braces]
kernel/pid.c:44:30: warning: missing braces around initializer
[-Wmissing-braces]
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