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ipc: get rid of ids->tables_initialized hack
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:01:52 +0000 (22:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:52:52 +0000 (10:52 -0700)
commitb3fc486c2798ac53ec178037d5d8dd59f09ced66
tree61309e8b4d24ac8caaaafdb2fee262998688dcb8
parentff94aae630932ba20a42d3ad7c2f24d731ddfe3f
ipc: get rid of ids->tables_initialized hack

In sysvipc we have an ids->tables_initialized regarding the rhashtable,
introduced in 0b795e98e2dd ("ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots
of keys")

It's there, specifically, to prevent nil pointer dereferences, from using
an uninitialized api.  Considering how rhashtable_init() can fail
(probably due to ENOMEM, if anything), this made the overall ipc
initialization capable of failure as well.  That alone is ugly, but fine,
however I've spotted a few issues regarding the semantics of
tables_initialized (however unlikely they may be):

- There is inconsistency in what we return to userspace: ipc_addid()
  returns ENOSPC which is certainly _wrong_, while ipc_obtain_object_idr()
  returns EINVAL.

- After we started using rhashtables, ipc_findkey() can return nil upon
  !tables_initialized, but the caller expects nil for when the ipc
  structure isn't found, and can therefore call into ipcget() callbacks.

Now that rhashtable initialization cannot fail, we can properly get rid of
the hack altogether.

[manfred@colorfullife.com: commit id extended to 12 digits]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712185241.4017-10-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
ipc/util.c