Fix a race condition in FASYNC handling
Changeset a238b790d5f99c7832f9b73ac8847025815b85f7 (Call fasync()
functions without the BKL) introduced a race which could leave
file->f_flags in a state inconsistent with what the underlying
driver/filesystem believes. Revert that change, and also fix the same
races in ioctl_fioasync() and ioctl_fionbio().
This is a minimal, short-term fix; the real fix will not involve the
BKL.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index d152856..43e8b2c 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -400,11 +400,9 @@
/* Did FASYNC state change ? */
if ((flag ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) {
- if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) {
- lock_kernel();
+ if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync)
error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, on);
- unlock_kernel();
- } else
+ else
error = -ENOTTY;
}
if (error)
@@ -440,11 +438,17 @@
break;
case FIONBIO:
+ /* BKL needed to avoid races tweaking f_flags */
+ lock_kernel();
error = ioctl_fionbio(filp, argp);
+ unlock_kernel();
break;
case FIOASYNC:
+ /* BKL needed to avoid races tweaking f_flags */
+ lock_kernel();
error = ioctl_fioasync(fd, filp, argp);
+ unlock_kernel();
break;
case FIOQSIZE: