Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

Richard A Nelson (cowboy@vnet.ibm.com)
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:00:24 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> 2.2.19pre10
> o Revert shm change - its unsafe (Richard Nelson)
>
> [...]
>
> 2.2.19pre3
> o Fix IPC_RMID behaviour (Christoph Rohland)
>

Ack...

First, I'm glad I wasn't hallucinating, and that the mail did indeed get
seen by someone.

Second, instead of reverting, can't we simply move those two lines up a
bit:
case IPC_RMID:
if (current->euid == shp->u.shm_perm.uid ||
current->euid == shp->u.shm_perm.cuid ||
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
shp->u.shm_perm.mode |= SHM_DEST;
+ /* Do not find it any more */
+ shp->shm_perm.key = IPC_PRIVATE;
if (shp->u.shm_nattch <= 0)
killseg (id);
break;

This way, we're not violating specs, programs work, *and* we're not
touching freshly kfree()d storage?

-- 
Rick Nelson
DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system
     crashes, usually just before saving a massive project.  Easily cured by
     UNIX.  See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS.
(from David Vicker's .plan)

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