[PATCH][2.5.75] devfsd hangs on restart - is_devfsd_or_child() problem

[Andrey Borzenkov]

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On Friday 11 July 2003 22:47, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> I cannot believe it is so fragile ...
>
> is_devfsd_or_child() simplemindedly checks for pgrp:
>
> static int is_devfsd_or_child (struct fs_info *fs_info)
> {
>     if (current == fs_info->devfsd_task) return (TRUE);
>     if (current->pgrp == fs_info->devfsd_pgrp) return (TRUE);
>     return (FALSE);
> }   /*  End Function is_devfsd_or_child  */
>

Andrew, one more for your collection :)

The code that did proper check existed in 2.4 and was removed in 2.5 for 
whatever reason. The patch restores it slightly modified as below.

2.4 code looks somewhat unclean in that

- it traverses task list without lock. 
- is starts from current->real_parent but nothing prevents current be 
init_task itself. This hung for me on 2.5 during boot. May be 2.4 does 
something differently.

Comments?

regards

-andrey

This is trivially reproduced under 2.5 by using devfsd.conf lines

LOOKUP  ^foo$   EXECUTE /home/bor/tmp/devfsd/handler /dev/bar
LOOKUP  ^bar$   EXECUTE /home/bor/tmp/devfsd/handler /dev/foo

and handler like

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#include <unistd.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
{
        if (argc <= 1)
                return 0;

        setpgrp();
        return access(argv[1], R_OK);
}
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and doing ls /dev/foo
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--- linux-2.5.75-smp/fs/devfs/base.c.devfsd_child	2003-07-11 19:41:46.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.5.75-smp/fs/devfs/base.c	2003-07-12 13:51:49.000000000 +0400
@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/version.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -1325,8 +1326,20 @@ static void free_dentry (struct devfs_en
 
 static int is_devfsd_or_child (struct fs_info *fs_info)
 {
-    if (current == fs_info->devfsd_task) return (TRUE);
-    if (current->pgrp == fs_info->devfsd_pgrp) return (TRUE);
+    struct task_struct *p = current;
+
+    if (p == fs_info->devfsd_task) return (TRUE);
+    if (p->pgrp == fs_info->devfsd_pgrp) return (TRUE);
+    read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+    for ( ; p != &init_task; p = p->real_parent)
+    {
+	if (p == fs_info->devfsd_task)
+	{
+	    read_unlock (&tasklist_lock);
+	    return (TRUE);
+	}
+    }
+    read_unlock (&tasklist_lock);
     return (FALSE);
 }   /*  End Function is_devfsd_or_child  */
 

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