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[PATCH] exec: allow core_pipe recursion check to look for a value of 1 rather than 0

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Neil Horman

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Jan 21, 2010, 3:06:32 PM1/21/10
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Hey all-
So, about 6 months ago, I made a set of changes to how the
core-dump-to-a-pipe feature in the kernel works. We had reports of several
races, including some reports of apps bypassing our recursion check so that a
process that was forked as part of a core_pattern setup could infinitely crash
and refork until the system crashed.

We fixes those by improving our recursion checks. The new check
basically refuses to fork a process if its core limit is zero, which works well.

Unfortunately, I've been getting grief from maintainer of user space
programs that are inserted as the forked process of core_pattern. They contend
that in order for their programs (such as abrt and apport) to work, all the
running processes in a system must have their core limits set to a non-zero
value, to which I say 'yes'. I did this by design, and think thats the right
way to do things.

But I've been asked to ease this burden on user space enough times that
I thought I would take a look at it. The first suggestion was to make the
recursion check fail on a non-zero 'special' number, like one. That way the
core collector process could set its core size ulimit to 1, and enable the
kernel's recursion detection. This isn't a bad idea on the surface, but I don't
like it since its opt-in, in that if a program like abrt or apport has a bug and
fails to set such a core limit, we're left with a recursively crashing system
again.

So I've come up with this. What I've done is modify the
call_usermodehelper api such that an extra parameter is added, a function
pointer which will be called by the user helper task, after it forks, but before
it exec's the required process. This will give the caller the opportunity to
get a call back in the processes context, allowing it to do whatever it needs to
to the process in the kernel prior to exec-ing the user space code. In the case
of do_coredump, this callback is ues to set the core ulimit of the helper
process to 1. This elimnates the opt-in problem that I had above, as it allows
the ulimit for core sizes to be set to the value of 1, which is what the
recursion check looks for in do_coredump.

This patch has been tested successfully by some of the Abrt maintainers
in fedora, with good results. Patch applies to the latest -mm tree as of this
AM.

Neil

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Moskovcak <jmos...@redhat.com>
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CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <be...@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Thomas Sailer <t.sa...@alumni.ethz.ch>
CC: Adam Belay <abe...@mit.edu>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
CC: Michal Januszewski <sp...@gentoo.org>
CC: Al Viro <vi...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Neil Brown <ne...@suse.de>
CC: Mark Fasheh <mfa...@suse.com>
CC: Paul Menage <men...@google.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemm...@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Kentaro Takeda <take...@nttdata.co.jp>

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 2 +-
drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c | 2 +-
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c | 2 +-
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c | 2 +-
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c | 2 +-
drivers/video/uvesafb.c | 2 +-
fs/exec.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
fs/nfs/cache_lib.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c | 2 +-
include/linux/kmod.h | 16 ++++++++++------
kernel/cgroup.c | 2 +-
kernel/kmod.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +-
net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 4 ++--
security/keys/request_key.c | 2 +-
security/tomoyo/common.c | 2 +-
19 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index a8aacd4..1f59e0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static void mce_start_timer(unsigned long data)

static void mce_do_trigger(struct work_struct *work)
{
- call_usermodehelper(mce_helper, mce_helper_argv, NULL, UMH_NO_WAIT);
+ call_usermodehelper(mce_helper, mce_helper_argv, NULL, NULL, UMH_NO_WAIT);
}

static DECLARE_WORK(mce_trigger_work, mce_do_trigger);
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 4e0726a..ae2719b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ int drbd_khelper(struct drbd_conf *mdev, char *cmd)
dev_info(DEV, "helper command: %s %s %s\n", usermode_helper, cmd, mb);

drbd_bcast_ev_helper(mdev, cmd);
- ret = call_usermodehelper(usermode_helper, argv, envp, 1);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper(usermode_helper, argv, envp, NULL, 1);
if (ret)
dev_warn(DEV, "helper command: %s %s %s exit code %u (0x%x)\n",
usermode_helper, cmd, mb,
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c b/drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c
index 454bc50..899f895 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ static int call_critical_overtemp(void)
NULL };

return call_usermodehelper(critical_overtemp_path,
- argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
}


diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c b/drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c
index 075b4d9..640c856 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ int wf_critical_overtemp(void)
NULL };

return call_usermodehelper(critical_overtemp_path,
- argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wf_critical_overtemp);

diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
index a3c0dc9..daa2097 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static int eppconfig(struct baycom_state *bc)
sprintf(portarg, "%ld", bc->pdev->port->base);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: %s -s -p %s -m %s\n", bc_drvname, eppconfig_path, portarg, modearg);

- return call_usermodehelper(eppconfig_path, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+ return call_usermodehelper(eppconfig_path, argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
}

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
diff --git a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
index cfe8685..00bb172 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int pnp_dock_event(int dock, struct pnp_docking_station_info *info)
info->location_id, info->serial, info->capabilities);
envp[i] = NULL;

- value = call_usermodehelper(argv [0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ value = call_usermodehelper(argv [0], argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
kfree(buf);
kfree(envp);
return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
index e0f13ef..aaafc00 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
@@ -4287,7 +4287,7 @@ void GPIOChangeRFWorkItemCallBack(struct work_struct *work)
argv[0] = RadioPowerPath;
argv[2] = NULL;

- call_usermodehelper(RadioPowerPath,argv,envp,1);
+ call_usermodehelper(RadioPowerPath,argv,envp,NULL,1);
}
}
}
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index 54fbb29..188aea3 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int uvesafb_helper_start(void)
NULL,
};

- return call_usermodehelper(v86d_path, argv, envp, 1);
+ return call_usermodehelper(v86d_path, argv, envp, NULL, 1);
}

/*
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 632b02e..3f2f829 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1755,6 +1755,18 @@ static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)

}

+/*
+ * This is used as a helper to set up the task that execs
+ * our user space core collector application
+ * Its called in the context of the task thats going to
+ * exec itself to be the helper, so we can modify current here
+ */
+void core_pipe_setup(void)
+{
+ task_lock(current->group_leader);
+ current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE].rlim_cur = 1;
+ task_unlock(current->group_leader);
+}

void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@@ -1836,7 +1848,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
goto fail_unlock;

if (ispipe) {
- if (cprm.limit == 0) {
+ if (cprm.limit == 1) {
/*
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
* we're not writing to the file system, but we use
@@ -1852,7 +1864,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
* core_pattern process dies.
*/
printk(KERN_WARNING
- "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+ "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 1\n",
task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
goto fail_unlock;
@@ -1877,7 +1889,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)

/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */
if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
- &cprm.file)) {
+ &cprm.file, core_pipe_setup)) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
corename);
goto fail_dropcount;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/cache_lib.c b/fs/nfs/cache_lib.c
index b4ffd01..73d79e9 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/cache_lib.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/cache_lib.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int nfs_cache_upcall(struct cache_detail *cd, char *entry_name)

if (nfs_cache_getent_prog[0] == '\0')
goto out;
- ret = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
/*
* Disable the upcall mechanism if we're getting an ENOENT or
* EACCES error. The admin can re-enable it on the fly by using
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
index f3df0ba..dddf780 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static void ocfs2_leave_group(const char *group)
envp[1] = "PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
envp[2] = NULL;

- ret = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
if (ret < 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"ocfs2: Error %d running user helper "
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 384ca8b..ca5e531 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ struct subprocess_info;

/* Allocate a subprocess_info structure */
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
- char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+ char **envp,
+ void (*finit)(void),
+ gfp_t gfp_mask);

/* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */
void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
@@ -72,12 +74,13 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);
void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info);

static inline int
-call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)
+call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+ void (*finit)(void), enum umh_wait wait)
{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, finit, gfp_mask);
if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
@@ -85,12 +88,13 @@ call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)

static inline int
call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct key *session_keyring, enum umh_wait wait)
+ struct key *session_keyring,
+ void (*finit)(void), enum umh_wait wait)
{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, finit, gfp_mask);
if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ extern void usermodehelper_init(void);

struct file;
extern int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[],
- struct file **filp);
+ struct file **filp, void (*finit)(void));

extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 1fbcc74..2dcbd51 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -3780,7 +3780,7 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct work_struct *work)
* since the exec could involve hitting disk and hence
* be a slow process */
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
- call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
continue_free:
kfree(pathbuf);
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index bf0e231..c80db3c 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <linux/resource.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
+#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

#include <trace/events/module.h>
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);

ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
- wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ NULL, wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return ret;
}
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ struct subprocess_info {
enum umh_wait wait;
int retval;
struct file *stdin;
+ void (*finit)(void);
void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
};

@@ -184,6 +186,9 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
*/
set_user_nice(current, 0);

+ if (sub_info->finit)
+ sub_info->finit();
+
retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);

/* Exec failed? */
@@ -365,7 +370,9 @@ static inline void helper_unlock(void) {}
* exec the process and free the structure.
*/
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
- char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+ char **envp,
+ void (*finit)(void),
+ gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), gfp_mask);
@@ -381,6 +388,7 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
kfree(sub_info);
return NULL;
}
+ sub_info->finit = finit;

out:
return sub_info;
@@ -510,12 +518,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);
* lower-level call_usermodehelper_* functions.
*/
int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct file **filp)
+ struct file **filp,
+ void (*finit)(void))
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
int ret;

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, finit, GFP_KERNEL);
if (sub_info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 26a6b73..0ad1306 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force)
goto out;
}

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (info == NULL) {
argv_free(argv);
goto out;
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 920a3ca..df55126 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
goto exit;

retval = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv,
- env->envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ env->envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
}

exit:
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
index 9a52ac5..9d75e7d 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static void br_stp_start(struct net_bridge *br)
char *argv[] = { BR_STP_PROG, br->dev->name, "start", NULL };
char *envp[] = { NULL };

- r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+ r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, NULL, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
if (r == 0) {
br->stp_enabled = BR_USER_STP;
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: userspace STP started\n", br->dev->name);
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static void br_stp_stop(struct net_bridge *br)
char *envp[] = { NULL };

if (br->stp_enabled == BR_USER_STP) {
- r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, 1);
+ r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, NULL, 1);
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: userspace STP stopped, return code %d\n",
br->dev->name, r);

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 03fe63e..f929b69 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,

/* do it */
ret = call_usermodehelper_keys(argv[0], argv, envp, keyring,
- UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+ NULL, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
kdebug("usermode -> 0x%x", ret);
if (ret >= 0) {
/* ret is the exit/wait code */
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.c b/security/tomoyo/common.c
index e0d0354..4aeefd7 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/common.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/common.c
@@ -1882,7 +1882,7 @@ void tomoyo_load_policy(const char *filename)
envp[0] = "HOME=/";
envp[1] = "PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
envp[2] = NULL;
- call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, 1);
+ call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, 1);

printk(KERN_INFO "TOMOYO: 2.2.0 2009/04/01\n");
printk(KERN_INFO "Mandatory Access Control activated.\n");
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Acked-by: Thomas Sailer <t.sa...@alumni.ethz.ch>

Neil Horman

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Jan 25, 2010, 4:13:41 PM1/25/10
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:29:17PM +0100, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> Acked-by: Thomas Sailer <t.sa...@alumni.ethz.ch>
>
Thank you, anyone else have thoughts on this?

Regards
Neil

Andrew Morton

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hrm. Fair enough, I guess..

> +/*
> + * This is used as a helper to set up the task that execs
> + * our user space core collector application
> + * Its called in the context of the task thats going to
> + * exec itself to be the helper, so we can modify current here
> + */

It's worth spending another 15 seconds on the comments. That way, they
end up looking like they're written in English.

> +void core_pipe_setup(void)
> +{
> + task_lock(current->group_leader);
> + current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE].rlim_cur = 1;
> + task_unlock(current->group_leader);
> +}

I'll make this static.

What does "finit" mean? Doesn't seem very intuitive.

> /* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */
> void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
> @@ -72,12 +74,13 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);
> void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info);
>
> static inline int
> -call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)
> +call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
> + void (*finit)(void), enum umh_wait wait)
> {
> struct subprocess_info *info;
> gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
>
> - info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
> + info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, finit, gfp_mask);
> if (info == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
> return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);

The semantics of the `finit' callback should be documented here. It's
a kernel-wide interface and others might want to use it.


You're not a big fan of checkpatch, it seems.

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Ok, version two of this patch. I've cleaned up the comments, checkpatched,
rediffed to the latest -mm, etc. More interestingly, I've taken Olegs changes
into account in this version of the patch. By modifying Andi's work slightly,
I've introduced a new init fptr to the usermodehelper api, which lets a caller
customize the process that will be doing the helping. In the case of the
do_coredump path its now used to create the read/write pipes. This allows us to
remove the stdin specifics from the usermodehelper internals and factor our
call_usermodehelper_pipe entirely. I've tested this myself using abrt on
Fedora, with good results

Summary:

Neil

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
Tested-by: Neil Horman <nho...@redhat.com>


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Add init function to usermodehelper

Convert call_usermodehelper_cleanup to usermodehelper_fns and allow it to assign
both an init function and a cleanup function. The init function is called from
the context of the forked process and allows for customization of the helper
process prior to calling exec. Its return code gates the continuation of the
process, or causes its exit. Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the
subprocess_info struct allowing for data to be passed from the caller to the new
process, and the subsequent cleanup process

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>


include/linux/kmod.h | 21 +++++++++++++-------
kernel/kmod.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
kernel/sys.c | 4 +--
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 25d227c..54db3ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ struct subprocess_info;



/* Allocate a subprocess_info structure */
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
- char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask);

+ char **envp, void *data,


+ gfp_t gfp_mask);

/* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */
void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,

@@ -56,7 +57,9 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
struct file **filp);
void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp));
+ void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data));
+void call_usermodehelper_setinit(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(void *data));

enum umh_wait {
UMH_NO_WAIT = -1, /* don't wait at all */
@@ -72,15 +75,18 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);


void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info);

static inline int

-call_usermodehelper_cleanup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait,
- void (*cleanup)(char **, char **))
+call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+ enum umh_wait wait, int (*init)(void *data),
+ void (*cleanup)(char **, char **, void *data), void *data)


{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);

+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, data, gfp_mask);


if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

+ if (init)
+ call_usermodehelper_setinit(info, init);
if (cleanup)
call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(info, cleanup);
return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
@@ -89,7 +95,8 @@ call_usermodehelper_cleanup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait
static inline int


call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)

{
- return call_usermodehelper_cleanup(path, argv, envp, wait, NULL);
+ return call_usermodehelper_fns(path, argv, envp,
+ wait, NULL, NULL, NULL);
}

static inline int
@@ -99,7 +106,7 @@ call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,


struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);

+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, NULL, gfp_mask);


if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 2db0689..cab23a8 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq;
*/
char *modprobe_path = "/sbin/modprobe";

-static void free_arg(char **argv, char **env)
+static void free_arg(char **argv, char **env, void *unused)
{
kfree(argv[0]);
}
@@ -133,8 +133,9 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)

trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);

- ret = call_usermodehelper_cleanup(mp_copy, argv, envp,
- wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC, free_arg);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(mp_copy, argv, envp,
+ wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
+ NULL, free_arg, NULL);
mp_copy = NULL; /* free_arg frees */
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
error:
@@ -154,7 +155,9 @@ struct subprocess_info {


enum umh_wait wait;
int retval;
struct file *stdin;

- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
+ int (*init)(void *data);
+ void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data);
+ void *data;
};

/*
@@ -198,6 +201,12 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

+ if (sub_info->init) {
+ retval = sub_info->init(sub_info->data);
+ if (retval)
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
/*
* Our parent is keventd, which runs with elevated scheduling priority.
* Avoid propagating that into the userspace child.
@@ -207,6 +216,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);

/* Exec failed? */

+fail:
sub_info->retval = retval;
do_exit(0);
}
@@ -214,7 +224,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
if (info->cleanup)
- (*info->cleanup)(info->argv, info->envp);
+ (*info->cleanup)(info->argv, info->envp, info->data);
if (info->cred)
put_cred(info->cred);
kfree(info);
@@ -385,7 +395,8 @@ static inline void helper_unlock(void) {}


* exec the process and free the structure.
*/
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
- char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask)

+ char **envp, void *data,


+ gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), gfp_mask);

@@ -396,6 +407,7 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
sub_info->path = path;
sub_info->argv = argv;
sub_info->envp = envp;
+ sub_info->data = data;
sub_info->cred = prepare_usermodehelper_creds();
if (!sub_info->cred) {
kfree(sub_info);
@@ -430,19 +442,41 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setkeys);
* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @cleanup: a cleanup function
*
- * The cleanup function is just befor ethe subprocess_info is about to
+ * The cleanup function is just before ethe subprocess_info is about to
* be freed. This can be used for freeing the argv and envp. The
* Function must be runnable in either a process context or the
* context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called.
*/
void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp))
+ void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data))
{
info->cleanup = cleanup;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setcleanup);

/**
+ * call_usermodehelper_setinit - set a init function
+ * @info - a subprocess_info returned by a call_usermodehelper_setup
+ * @init - an init function
+ *
+ * The init function is called from the context of the process that
+ * the call to call_usermodehelper forks, just prior to it calling
+ * exec. Its purpose is to customize the process in whatever way
+ * the caller feels is needed just prior to execing and entering
+ * user space. the init function pointer returns an int. A return
+ * of 0 from the init function is treated as a success case, and
+ * allows the usermodehelper process to complete its task. A return
+ * of anything non-zero, causes the usermodehelper to set that return
+ * code in @info->retval, and exits the process immediately
+ */
+void call_usermodehelper_setinit(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(void *data))
+{
+ info->init = init;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setinit);
+
+/**
* call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe - set up a pipe to be used for stdin
* @sub_info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
@@ -535,7 +569,8 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,


struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
int ret;

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,

+ NULL, GFP_KERNEL);


if (sub_info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c

index ef286ab..207cf36 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getcpu, unsigned __user *, cpup, unsigned __user *, nodep,

char *poweroff_cmd = "/sbin/poweroff";

-static void argv_cleanup(char **argv, char **envp)
+static void argv_cleanup(char **argv, char **envp, void *unused)
{
argv_free(argv);
}
@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force)


goto out;
}

- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, NULL, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (info == NULL) {
argv_free(argv);
goto out;

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Replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use of umh init function and resolve limit

The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the
call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller. This
patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in do_coredump to
create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our recusrsion check). This
lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the usermodehelper internals and
factor call_usermodehelper out entirely.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>


fs/exec.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/kmod.h | 4 --
kernel/kmod.c | 83 ---------------------------------------------------
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 1a0b921..428ea6f 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1762,6 +1762,50 @@ static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)
}


+/*
+ * uhm_pipe_setup
+ * helper function to customize the process used
+ * to collect the core in userspace. Specifically
+ * it sets up a pipe and installs it as fd 0 (stdin)
+ * for the process. Returns 0 on success, or
+ * PTR_ERR on failure.
+ * Note that it also sets the core limit to 1. This
+ * is a special value that we use to trap recursive
+ * core dumps
+ */
+static int umh_pipe_setup(void *data)
+{
+ struct file *rp, *wp;
+ struct fdtable *fdt;
+ struct coredump_params *cp = (struct coredump_params *)data;
+ struct files_struct *cf = current->files;
+
+ wp = create_write_pipe(0);
+ if (IS_ERR(wp))
+ return PTR_ERR(wp);
+
+ rp = create_read_pipe(wp, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(rp)) {
+ free_write_pipe(wp);
+ return PTR_ERR(rp);
+ }
+
+ cp->file = wp;
+
+ sys_close(0);
+ fd_install(0, rp);
+ spin_lock(&cf->file_lock);
+ fdt = files_fdtable(cf);
+ FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
+ FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
+ spin_unlock(&cf->file_lock);
+
+ /* and disallow core files too */
+ current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){1, 1};
+
+ return 0;
+}


+
void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
{

struct core_state core_state;
@@ -1848,15 +1892,15 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


goto fail_unlock;

if (ispipe) {
- if (cprm.limit == 0) {
+ if (cprm.limit == 1) {
/*
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
* we're not writing to the file system, but we use

- * cprm.limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
- * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
+ * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
+ * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
* a limit of 0 skips the dump. This is a consistent
* way to catch recursive crashes. We can still crash
- * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !0
+ * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !1
* but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
* Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
* of the process group leader. That way we get the
@@ -1864,7 +1908,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


* core_pattern process dies.
*/
printk(KERN_WARNING
- "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+ "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 1\n",
task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
goto fail_unlock;

@@ -1888,8 +1932,13 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
cprm.limit = RLIM_INFINITY;



/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */

- if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
- &cprm.file)) {
+ cprm.file = NULL;
+ if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
+ UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
+ NULL, &cprm)) {
+ if (cprm.file)
+ filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);
+


printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
corename);
goto fail_dropcount;

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 54db3ff..4a2957d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -116,10 +116,6 @@ call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,

extern void usermodehelper_init(void);

-struct file;
-extern int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[],
- struct file **filp);
-


extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index cab23a8..85e2cc6 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ struct subprocess_info {
char **envp;


enum umh_wait wait;
int retval;

- struct file *stdin;
int (*init)(void *data);


void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data);

void *data;
@@ -181,23 +180,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
sub_info->cred = NULL;

- /* Install input pipe when needed */
- if (sub_info->stdin) {
- struct files_struct *f = current->files;
- struct fdtable *fdt;
- /* no races because files should be private here */
- sys_close(0);
- fd_install(0, sub_info->stdin);
- spin_lock(&f->file_lock);
- fdt = files_fdtable(f);
- FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
- FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
- spin_unlock(&f->file_lock);
-
- /* and disallow core files too */
- current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){0, 0};
- }
-


/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

@@ -477,35 +459,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setinit(struct subprocess_info *info,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setinit);

/**
- * call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe - set up a pipe to be used for stdin
- * @sub_info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This constructs a pipe, and sets the read end to be the stdin of the
- * subprocess, and returns the write-end in *@filp.
- */
-int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
- struct file **filp)
-{
- struct file *f;
-
- f = create_write_pipe(0);
- if (IS_ERR(f))
- return PTR_ERR(f);
- *filp = f;
-
- f = create_read_pipe(f, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(f)) {
- free_write_pipe(*filp);
- return PTR_ERR(f);
- }
- sub_info->stdin = f;
-
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe);
-
-/**
* call_usermodehelper_exec - start a usermode application
* @sub_info: information about the subprocessa
* @wait: wait for the application to finish and return status.
@@ -552,42 +505,6 @@ unlock:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);

-/**
- * call_usermodehelper_pipe - call a usermode helper process with a pipe stdin
- * @path: path to usermode executable
- * @argv: arg vector for process
- * @envp: environment for process
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This is a simple wrapper which executes a usermode-helper function
- * with a pipe as stdin. It is implemented entirely in terms of
- * lower-level call_usermodehelper_* functions.
- */
-int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct file **filp)
-{
- struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
- int ret;
-


- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,

- NULL, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (sub_info == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(sub_info, filp);
- if (ret < 0) {
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
- return ret;
- }
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
- if (ret < 0) /* Failed to execute helper, close pipe */
- filp_close(*filp, NULL);
-
- return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_pipe);
-
void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
{
khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");

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On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Add init function to usermodehelper
>
> Convert call_usermodehelper_cleanup to usermodehelper_fns and allow it to assign
> both an init function and a cleanup function.

Can't apply this patch, I guess -mm tree has other changes which
this patch depends on. However afaics this series is fine, just
a couple of nits.

> @@ -154,7 +155,9 @@ struct subprocess_info {
> enum umh_wait wait;
> int retval;
> struct file *stdin;
> - void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
> + int (*init)(void *data);
> + void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data);
> + void *data;

OK, we add *data. But why this patch changes the prototype of ->cleanup() ?
OTOH, I completely agree, it should be changed, and it should lose the
ugly argv/envp arguments.

Since we add subprocess_info->data ptr, I think both ->init and ->cleanup
funcs should have the single arg, "subprocess_info *info". argv, envp, data
they all can be accessed via *info.

Also. It is not clear why this patch changes call_usermodehelper_setup()
to set info->data. Unless the caller uses call_usermodehelper_setinit()
or call_usermodehelper_setcleanup() info->data is not used. Perhaps
it is better to have a single helper which takes (init, cleanup, data)
args.

What do you think?

In any case, I believe you should fix the subjects ;)

Oleg.

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 03:46:06PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > Add init function to usermodehelper
> >
> > Convert call_usermodehelper_cleanup to usermodehelper_fns and allow it to assign
> > both an init function and a cleanup function.
>
> Can't apply this patch, I guess -mm tree has other changes which
> this patch depends on. However afaics this series is fine, just
> a couple of nits.
>
Yeah, this will only apply to latest -mm

> > @@ -154,7 +155,9 @@ struct subprocess_info {
> > enum umh_wait wait;
> > int retval;
> > struct file *stdin;
> > - void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
> > + int (*init)(void *data);
> > + void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp, void *data);
> > + void *data;
>
> OK, we add *data. But why this patch changes the prototype of ->cleanup() ?
> OTOH, I completely agree, it should be changed, and it should lose the
> ugly argv/envp arguments.
>
> Since we add subprocess_info->data ptr, I think both ->init and ->cleanup
> funcs should have the single arg, "subprocess_info *info". argv, envp, data
> they all can be accessed via *info.
>

Yeah, I can do that.

> Also. It is not clear why this patch changes call_usermodehelper_setup()
> to set info->data. Unless the caller uses call_usermodehelper_setinit()
> or call_usermodehelper_setcleanup() info->data is not used. Perhaps
> it is better to have a single helper which takes (init, cleanup, data)
> args.
>
> What do you think?
>

Yeah, that seems reasonable, Honestly, I'm a bit confused as to why there are
set* helpers in the first place, we could just eliminate them entirely, since
callers can set all three independently with call_usermodehelper_fns. Anywho,
I'll clean that up some more.



> In any case, I believe you should fix the subjects ;)
>

Not sure whats wrong with the subjects, although I guess I am doing a good bit
more than just fixing that at this point :). I'll expand them.

Give me a few days, and I'll repost.
Neil

Oleg Nesterov

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On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> ...

> - if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> - &cprm.file)) {
> + cprm.file = NULL;

it is already NULL,

> + if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> + UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
> + NULL, &cprm)) {
> + if (cprm.file)
> + filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);

Hmm. Looks like this change fixes the bug by accident.

Before this patch, I think we leak info->stdin if kernel_thread() fails
in __call_usermodehelper() pathes.

Completely off-topic, but I think __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) is
buggy. if kernel_thread() failes it should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
Also, UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set ->retval in this case.

Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
check?

Oleg.

Neil Horman

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > {
> > ...
> > - if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> > - &cprm.file)) {
> > + cprm.file = NULL;
>
> it is already NULL,
>
Are we sure, it was declared on the stack. I think its safer to ensure that its
NULL.


> > + if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> > + UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
> > + NULL, &cprm)) {
> > + if (cprm.file)
> > + filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);
>
> Hmm. Looks like this change fixes the bug by accident.
>
> Before this patch, I think we leak info->stdin if kernel_thread() fails
> in __call_usermodehelper() pathes.
>
I think we did that in call_usermodehelper_pipe.

>
>
> Completely off-topic, but I think __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) is
> buggy. if kernel_thread() failes it should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
> Also, UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set ->retval in this case.
>

I went down that path last time I changed this code, Andrew and I decided that
yes it was buggy, but someone (can't recall how) smacked me around a bit and
explained how it worked (some odd artifact behavior of the scheduler). Its in
the lkml archives if you want to get the whole story.

> Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
> check?
>

That I can't explain. I figured I'd let that sleeping dog lie until this got
striaghtened out and fix it separately if it needed it
Neil

Oleg Nesterov

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On 01/31, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
> > >
> > > void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > {
> > > ...
> > > - if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> > > - &cprm.file)) {
> > > + cprm.file = NULL;
> >
> > it is already NULL,
> >
> Are we sure, it was declared on the stack.

it must be NULL, or compiler is buggy. it was declared as "= { ... }".

> I think its safer to ensure that its
> NULL.

OK, agreed. I mentioned this just in case.

> > > + if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> > > + UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
> > > + NULL, &cprm)) {
> > > + if (cprm.file)
> > > + filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);
> >
> > Hmm. Looks like this change fixes the bug by accident.
> >
> > Before this patch, I think we leak info->stdin if kernel_thread() fails
> > in __call_usermodehelper() pathes.
> >
> I think we did that in call_usermodehelper_pipe.

Afaics, no. Well yes, call_usermodehelper_pipe() closes write_pipe,
but I meant nobody closes read_pipe, info->stdin, if we fail before
____call_usermodehelper() is called.

> > Completely off-topic, but I think __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) is
> > buggy. if kernel_thread() failes it should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
> > Also, UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set ->retval in this case.
> >
> I went down that path last time I changed this code, Andrew and I decided that
> yes it was buggy, but someone (can't recall how) smacked me around a bit and
> explained how it worked (some odd artifact behavior of the scheduler). Its in
> the lkml archives if you want to get the whole story.

Hmm. I strongly believe this is buggy, and the scheduler can't help in any
way. Fortunately, kernel_thread() must "never" fail...

Oh. And in theory, it is better to change wait_for_helper(). It should
do allow_signal(SIGCHLD) after kernel_thread(). Otherwise, kernel_thread()
can fail if user-space sends SIGCHLD to the forking thread.

> > Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
> > check?
> >
> That I can't explain. I figured I'd let that sleeping dog lie until this got
> striaghtened out and fix it separately if it needed it
> Neil

Yes, yes, agreed. As I said, this has nothing to do with this series,
even if I am right these (minor) bugs should be fixed separately.

Oleg Nesterov

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On 02/01, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Oh. And in theory, it is better to change wait_for_helper(). It should
> do allow_signal(SIGCHLD) after kernel_thread(). Otherwise, kernel_thread()
> can fail if user-space sends SIGCHLD to the forking thread.

Well ;) And since allow_signal(SIGCHLD) was called, in theory we should
call sys_wait4() + clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING) in a loop to protect
against the false SIGCHLD.

> > > Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
> > > check?
> > >
> > That I can't explain. I figured I'd let that sleeping dog lie until this got
> > striaghtened out and fix it separately if it needed it
> > Neil
>
> Yes, yes, agreed. As I said, this has nothing to do with this series,
> even if I am right these (minor) bugs should be fixed separately.

Yes.

Neil Horman

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Commit 95e0d86badc410d525ea7218fd32df7bfbf9c837 has the discussion from the
previous time that I messed with this code. Not sure how closely it relates,
but...

Neil

Oleg Nesterov

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On 02/01, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > > > Completely off-topic, but I think __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) is
> > > > buggy. if kernel_thread() failes it should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
> > > > Also, UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set ->retval in this case.
> > > >
> > > I went down that path last time I changed this code, Andrew and I decided that
> > > yes it was buggy, but someone (can't recall how) smacked me around a bit and
> > > explained how it worked (some odd artifact behavior of the scheduler). Its in
> > > the lkml archives if you want to get the whole story.
> >
> > Hmm. I strongly believe this is buggy, and the scheduler can't help in any
> > way. Fortunately, kernel_thread() must "never" fail...
>
> Commit 95e0d86badc410d525ea7218fd32df7bfbf9c837 has the discussion from the
> previous time that I messed with this code. Not sure how closely it relates,
> but...

The changelog correctly explains why it is OK to do complete() from
__call_usermodehelper() in UMH_WAIT_EXEC case: CLONE_VFORK guarantees
kernel_thread(CLONE_VFORK) won't return (see do_fork()) until
____call_usermodehelper() thread does exec or exits.

I meant a much more simple problem, I think we need something like this
patch:

--- kernel/kmod.c
+++ kernel/kmod.c
@@ -266,15 +266,18 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct

switch (wait) {
case UMH_NO_WAIT:
+ if (pid < 0)
+ call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
break;

case UMH_WAIT_PROC:
if (pid > 0)
break;
- sub_info->retval = pid;
/* FALLTHROUGH */

case UMH_WAIT_EXEC:
+ if (pid < 0)
+ sub_info->retval = pid;
complete(sub_info->complete);
}
}

to fix 2 problems if kernel_thread() fails in __call_usermodehelper()

- UMH_NO_WAIT should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()

- UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set sub_info->retval to indicate
the error

> > Oh. And in theory, it is better to change wait_for_helper(). It should
> > do allow_signal(SIGCHLD) after kernel_thread().

I was wrong, of course we can't do this, the child can exit and reap
itself before we do sys_wait4().

> Otherwise, kernel_thread()
> > can fail if user-space sends SIGCHLD to the forking thread.

but this is still true. Fortunately this is very minor problem.

Oleg.

Neil Horman

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Ok, version 3, taking olegs next set of notes into account. Really just made
the subprocess_info struct visible from the header file (not opaque), and
modified the cleanup and init routines such that they accept a subprocess_info
parameter.

Neil

Neil Horman

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Add init function to usermodehelper

Convert call_usermodehelper_cleanup to usermodehelper_fns and allow it to assign

both an init function and a cleanup function. The init function is called from
the context of the forked process and allows for customization of the helper
process prior to calling exec. Its return code gates the continuation of the
process, or causes its exit. Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the
subprocess_info struct allowing for data to be passed from the caller to the new
process, and the subsequent cleanup process

Also, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes an
argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just make the
subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup and init routines

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 25d227c..2f3efdc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -44,7 +44,27 @@ static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS;

struct key;
struct file;
-struct subprocess_info;
+
+enum umh_wait {
+ UMH_NO_WAIT = -1, /* don't wait at all */
+ UMH_WAIT_EXEC = 0, /* wait for the exec, but not the process */
+ UMH_WAIT_PROC = 1, /* wait for the process to complete */
+};
+
+struct subprocess_info {
+ struct work_struct work;
+ struct completion *complete;
+ struct cred *cred;
+ char *path;
+ char **argv;
+ char **envp;
+ enum umh_wait wait;
+ int retval;
+ struct file *stdin;
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info);
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info);
+ void *data;
+};



/* Allocate a subprocess_info structure */
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,

@@ -55,14 +75,10 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
struct key *session_keyring);


int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
struct file **filp);

-void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp));
-
-enum umh_wait {
- UMH_NO_WAIT = -1, /* don't wait at all */
- UMH_WAIT_EXEC = 0, /* wait for the exec, but not the process */
- UMH_WAIT_PROC = 1, /* wait for the process to complete */
-};
+void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void *data);

/* Actually execute the sub-process */


int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);

@@ -72,8 +88,10 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);


void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info);

static inline int

-call_usermodehelper_cleanup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait,
- void (*cleanup)(char **, char **))

+call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+ enum umh_wait wait,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data)


{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

@@ -81,15 +99,15 @@ call_usermodehelper_cleanup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait


info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);

if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

- if (cleanup)
- call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(info, cleanup);
+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, init, cleanup, data);
return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
}

static inline int


call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)

{
- return call_usermodehelper_cleanup(path, argv, envp, wait, NULL);
+ return call_usermodehelper_fns(path, argv, envp,
+ wait, NULL, NULL, NULL);
}

static inline int

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 2db0689..1094b41 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq;


*/
char *modprobe_path = "/sbin/modprobe";

-static void free_arg(char **argv, char **env)

+static void free_arg(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
- kfree(argv[0]);
+ kfree(info->argv[0]);
}

/**
@@ -133,8 +133,9 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)

trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);


- ret = call_usermodehelper_cleanup(mp_copy, argv, envp,
- wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC, free_arg);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(mp_copy, argv, envp,
+ wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
+ NULL, free_arg, NULL);
mp_copy = NULL; /* free_arg frees */
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
error:

@@ -144,19 +145,6 @@ error:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_module);
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */

-struct subprocess_info {
- struct work_struct work;
- struct completion *complete;
- struct cred *cred;
- char *path;
- char **argv;
- char **envp;
- enum umh_wait wait;
- int retval;
- struct file *stdin;
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
-};
-
/*
* This is the task which runs the usermode application
*/
@@ -198,6 +186,12 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

+ if (sub_info->init) {
+ retval = sub_info->init(sub_info);


+ if (retval)
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
/*
* Our parent is keventd, which runs with elevated scheduling priority.
* Avoid propagating that into the userspace child.

@@ -207,6 +201,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);

/* Exec failed? */

+fail:
sub_info->retval = retval;
do_exit(0);
}

@@ -214,7 +209,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
if (info->cleanup)
- (*info->cleanup)(info->argv, info->envp);

+ (*info->cleanup)(info);


if (info->cred)
put_cred(info->cred);
kfree(info);

@@ -426,21 +421,31 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setkeys);

/**
- * call_usermodehelper_setcleanup - set a cleanup function
+ * call_usermodehelper_setfns - set a cleanup/init function


* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @cleanup: a cleanup function

+ * @init: an init function
+ * @data: arbitrary context sensitive data
+ *
+ * The init function is used to customize the helper process prior to
+ * exec. A non-zero return code causes the process to error out, exit,
+ * and return the failure to the calling process


*
- * The cleanup function is just befor ethe subprocess_info is about to
+ * The cleanup function is just before ethe subprocess_info is about to
* be freed. This can be used for freeing the argv and envp. The
* Function must be runnable in either a process context or the
* context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called.
*/

-void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp))
+void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void *data)
{
info->cleanup = cleanup;


+ info->init = init;

+ info->data = data;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setcleanup);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);

/**


* call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe - set up a pipe to be used for stdin

@@ -535,7 +540,8 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,


struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
int ret;

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,

+ GFP_KERNEL);


if (sub_info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c

index ef286ab..71005f1 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1728,9 +1728,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getcpu, unsigned __user *, cpup, unsigned __user *, nodep,



char *poweroff_cmd = "/sbin/poweroff";

-static void argv_cleanup(char **argv, char **envp)

+static void argv_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
- argv_free(argv);
+ argv_free(info->argv);
}

/**
@@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force)
goto out;
}

- call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(info, argv_cleanup);
+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, NULL, argv_cleanup, NULL);

ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(info, UMH_NO_WAIT);

Neil Horman

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Replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use of umh init function and resolve limit

The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the
call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller. This
patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in do_coredump to
create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our recusrsion check). This
lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the usermodehelper internals and

factor call_usermodehelper out entirely. While I'm at it, we can also modify
the helper setup to look for a core limit value of 1 rather than zero for our
recursion check

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 1a0b921..4e77085 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1762,6 +1762,50 @@ static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)
}


+/*


+ * uhm_pipe_setup
+ * helper function to customize the process used
+ * to collect the core in userspace. Specifically
+ * it sets up a pipe and installs it as fd 0 (stdin)
+ * for the process. Returns 0 on success, or
+ * PTR_ERR on failure.
+ * Note that it also sets the core limit to 1. This
+ * is a special value that we use to trap recursive
+ * core dumps
+ */

+static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info)


+{
+ struct file *rp, *wp;
+ struct fdtable *fdt;

+ struct coredump_params *cp = (struct coredump_params *)info->data;

+
void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
{

struct core_state core_state;
@@ -1848,15 +1892,15 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


goto fail_unlock;

if (ispipe) {
- if (cprm.limit == 0) {
+ if (cprm.limit == 1) {
/*
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
* we're not writing to the file system, but we use

- * cprm.limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
- * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
+ * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
+ * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
* a limit of 0 skips the dump. This is a consistent
* way to catch recursive crashes. We can still crash
- * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !0
+ * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !1
* but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
* Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
* of the process group leader. That way we get the

@@ -1864,7 +1908,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


* core_pattern process dies.
*/
printk(KERN_WARNING
- "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+ "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 1\n",
task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
goto fail_unlock;

@@ -1888,8 +1932,13 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
cprm.limit = RLIM_INFINITY;



/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */

- if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
- &cprm.file)) {
+ cprm.file = NULL;


+ if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
+ UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
+ NULL, &cprm)) {
+ if (cprm.file)
+ filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);

+


printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
corename);
goto fail_dropcount;

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 2f3efdc..1b95e2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ struct subprocess_info {
char **envp;


enum umh_wait wait;
int retval;

- struct file *stdin;
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info);
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info);
void *data;
@@ -127,10 +126,6 @@ call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,



extern void usermodehelper_init(void);

-struct file;

-extern int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[],
- struct file **filp);
-


extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 1094b41..ac8e1a5 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -166,23 +166,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
sub_info->cred = NULL;

- /* Install input pipe when needed */
- if (sub_info->stdin) {
- struct files_struct *f = current->files;
- struct fdtable *fdt;
- /* no races because files should be private here */
- sys_close(0);
- fd_install(0, sub_info->stdin);
- spin_lock(&f->file_lock);
- fdt = files_fdtable(f);
- FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
- FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
- spin_unlock(&f->file_lock);
-
- /* and disallow core files too */
- current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){0, 0};
- }
-

/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

@@ -448,35 +431,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);

@@ -523,42 +477,6 @@ unlock:


}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);

-/**
- * call_usermodehelper_pipe - call a usermode helper process with a pipe stdin
- * @path: path to usermode executable
- * @argv: arg vector for process
- * @envp: environment for process
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This is a simple wrapper which executes a usermode-helper function
- * with a pipe as stdin. It is implemented entirely in terms of
- * lower-level call_usermodehelper_* functions.
- */

-int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct file **filp)


-{
- struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
- int ret;
-

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,

- GFP_KERNEL);


- if (sub_info == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(sub_info, filp);
- if (ret < 0) {
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
- return ret;
- }
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
- if (ret < 0) /* Failed to execute helper, close pipe */
- filp_close(*filp, NULL);
-
- return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_pipe);
-
void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
{
khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");

Oleg Nesterov

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Feb 3, 2010, 3:11:12 PM2/3/10
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On 02/02, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> +void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
> + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
> + void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
> + void *data);
> ...

> +call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
> + enum umh_wait wait,
> + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
> + void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data)
> ...

> + call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, init, cleanup, data);
> return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
> }

Unless I misread the patch, this is the only caller of _setfns(), and
this helper is really trivial and probably deserves to be inline. But
this is very minor.

Personally I think these patches are nice. Not only this series adds
the new functionality, in my opinion it also cleanups and simplifies
the code.

Oleg.

Neil Horman

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:29:22 AM3/15/10
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Hey, so I've rediffed and tested the user mode helper bits from my previous
patch set that got wrecked when the rcustring bits got pulled. I've got he
origional summary below, and the patches follwoing. Note, their just my
changes, rediffed to work without Andis patch set. The other umh call sites can
still use plain old call_usermodehelper as they did previously. I'll submit
patches as needed for other callers to make use of the init/cleanup functions as
I have the time/ability to test those changes properly. The changes below I've
been able to test and verify myself.

This patch has been tested successfully by me.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <an...@firstfloor.org>

Neil Horman

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:34:09 AM3/15/10
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Rediff of the usermodehelper changes after all the wreckage. This patch
encompasses the patches that were formally in -mm as:
kmod-add-init-function-to-usermodehelper.patch
kmod-add-init-function-to-usermodehelper-fix.patch

I also rolled in changes from Oleg, moving the call of the init method down in
____call_usermodehelper, so the init function could override the nice level on
the process.

Create new function call_usermodehelper_fns() and allow it
to assign both an init and cleanup function, as we'll as arbitrary data.

The init function is called from the context of the forked process and
allows for customization of the helper process prior to calling exec. Its
return code gates the continuation of the process, or causes its exit.
Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the subprocess_info struct allowing
for data to be passed from the caller to the new process, and the
subsequent cleanup process

Also, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes
an argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just
make the subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup
and init routines

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>


CC: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <an...@firstfloor.org>


include/linux/kmod.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
kernel/kmod.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
kernel/sys.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index facb27f..f9edf63 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>

#define KMOD_PATH_LEN 256

@@ -45,7 +46,27 @@ static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS;

@@ -56,14 +77,10 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,


struct key *session_keyring);
int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
struct file **filp);
-void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp));
-
-enum umh_wait {
- UMH_NO_WAIT = -1, /* don't wait at all */
- UMH_WAIT_EXEC = 0, /* wait for the exec, but not the process */
- UMH_WAIT_PROC = 1, /* wait for the process to complete */
-};

+void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void *data);

/* Actually execute the sub-process */
int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);

@@ -73,18 +90,32 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, enum umh_wait wait);


void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info);

static inline int

-call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)


+call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+ enum umh_wait wait,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data)

{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;

info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);

+


if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

+


+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, init, cleanup, data);

+


return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
}

static inline int

+call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)
+{
+ return call_usermodehelper_fns(path, argv, envp, wait,
+ NULL, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+static inline int
call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,


struct key *session_keyring, enum umh_wait wait)

{
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index bf0e231..531ef62 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -116,27 +116,16 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)

trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);

- ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
- wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,


+ wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,

+ NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return ret;


}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_module);
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */

-struct subprocess_info {
- struct work_struct work;
- struct completion *complete;
- struct cred *cred;
- char *path;
- char **argv;
- char **envp;
- enum umh_wait wait;

- int retval;
- struct file *stdin;


- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp);
-};
-
/*
* This is the task which runs the usermode application
*/

@@ -184,9 +173,16 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
*/
set_user_nice(current, 0);



+ if (sub_info->init) {
+ retval = sub_info->init(sub_info);
+ if (retval)
+ goto fail;
+ }
+

retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);

/* Exec failed? */
+fail:
sub_info->retval = retval;
do_exit(0);
}

@@ -194,7 +190,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
if (info->cleanup)
- (*info->cleanup)(info->argv, info->envp);
+ (*info->cleanup)(info);
if (info->cred)
put_cred(info->cred);
kfree(info);

@@ -406,21 +402,31 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,


EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setkeys);

/**
- * call_usermodehelper_setcleanup - set a cleanup function
+ * call_usermodehelper_setfns - set a cleanup/init function
* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @cleanup: a cleanup function
+ * @init: an init function
+ * @data: arbitrary context sensitive data
+ *
+ * The init function is used to customize the helper process prior to
+ * exec. A non-zero return code causes the process to error out, exit,
+ * and return the failure to the calling process
*
- * The cleanup function is just befor ethe subprocess_info is about to
+ * The cleanup function is just before ethe subprocess_info is about to
* be freed. This can be used for freeing the argv and envp. The
* Function must be runnable in either a process context or the
* context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called.
*/
-void call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(struct subprocess_info *info,
- void (*cleanup)(char **argv, char **envp))

+void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
+ int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
+ void *data)

{
info->cleanup = cleanup;
+ info->init = init;
+ info->data = data;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setcleanup);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);

/**

* call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe - set up a pipe to be used for stdin

@@ -515,7 +521,8 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,


struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
int ret;

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (sub_info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c

index ee25411..66b9edc 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1765,9 +1765,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getcpu, unsigned __user *, cpup, unsigned __user *, nodep,

char poweroff_cmd[POWEROFF_CMD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/poweroff";



-static void argv_cleanup(char **argv, char **envp)
+static void argv_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
- argv_free(argv);
+ argv_free(info->argv);
}

/**

@@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force)


goto out;
}

- call_usermodehelper_setcleanup(info, argv_cleanup);
+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, NULL, argv_cleanup, NULL);

ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(info, UMH_NO_WAIT);

Neil Horman

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:36:17 AM3/15/10
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Rediff of the usermodehelper changes after all the wreckage. This patch
encompasses the patches that were formally in -mm as:

kmod-replace-call_usermodehelper_pipe-with-use-of-umh-init-function-and-resolve-limit.patch
kmod-replace-call_usermodehelper_pipe-with-use-of-umh-init-function-and-resolve-limitcleanup.patch

kmod: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe() with use of umh init function and resolve limit

The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the
call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller.
This patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in
do_coredump to create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our
recusrsion check). This lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the
usermodehelper internals and factor call_usermodehelper out entirely.
While I'm at it, we can also modify the helper setup to look for a core
limit value of 1 rather than zero for our recursion check

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>


CC: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <an...@firstfloor.org>


fs/exec.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
include/linux/kmod.h | 7 ----
kernel/kmod.c | 82 ---------------------------------------------------
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index f351cdb..64a50b4 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1784,6 +1784,50 @@ static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)

@@ -1871,15 +1915,15 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


goto fail_unlock;

if (ispipe) {
- if (cprm.limit == 0) {
+ if (cprm.limit == 1) {
/*
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
* we're not writing to the file system, but we use
- * cprm.limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
- * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
+ * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
+ * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
* a limit of 0 skips the dump. This is a consistent
* way to catch recursive crashes. We can still crash
- * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !0
+ * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !1
* but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
* Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
* of the process group leader. That way we get the

@@ -1887,7 +1931,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


* core_pattern process dies.
*/
printk(KERN_WARNING
- "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+ "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 1\n",
task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
goto fail_unlock;

@@ -1911,8 +1955,13 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)


cprm.limit = RLIM_INFINITY;

/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */
- if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
- &cprm.file)) {
+ cprm.file = NULL;
+ if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
+ UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
+ NULL, &cprm)) {
+ if (cprm.file)
+ filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);
+
printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
corename);
goto fail_dropcount;

diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index f9edf63..5c05877 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct subprocess_info {


char **envp;
enum umh_wait wait;

int retval;
- struct file *stdin;

int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info);
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info);
void *data;

@@ -75,8 +74,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,


/* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */

void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
struct key *session_keyring);

-int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
- struct file **filp);
void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
@@ -132,10 +129,6 @@ call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,



extern void usermodehelper_init(void);

-struct file;
-extern int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[],
- struct file **filp);
-
extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 531ef62..d154454 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -147,23 +147,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)


commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
sub_info->cred = NULL;

- /* Install input pipe when needed */
- if (sub_info->stdin) {
- struct files_struct *f = current->files;
- struct fdtable *fdt;
- /* no races because files should be private here */
- sys_close(0);
- fd_install(0, sub_info->stdin);
- spin_lock(&f->file_lock);
- fdt = files_fdtable(f);
- FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
- FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
- spin_unlock(&f->file_lock);
-
- /* and disallow core files too */
- current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){0, 0};
- }
-
/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

@@ -429,35 +412,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,

@@ -504,42 +458,6 @@ unlock:


}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);

-/**
- * call_usermodehelper_pipe - call a usermode helper process with a pipe stdin
- * @path: path to usermode executable
- * @argv: arg vector for process
- * @envp: environment for process
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This is a simple wrapper which executes a usermode-helper function
- * with a pipe as stdin. It is implemented entirely in terms of
- * lower-level call_usermodehelper_* functions.
- */
-int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct file **filp)
-{
- struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
- int ret;
-

- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,

- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (sub_info == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(sub_info, filp);
- if (ret < 0) {
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
- return ret;
- }
-
- ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
- if (ret < 0) /* Failed to execute helper, close pipe */
- filp_close(*filp, NULL);
-
- return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_pipe);
-
void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
{
khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 1:36:59 PM3/15/10
to Neil Horman, ak...@linux-foundation.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org
On 03/15, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/kmod.c
> +++ b/kernel/kmod.c
> @@ -116,27 +116,16 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
>
> trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);
>
> - ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
> - wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
> + ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
> + wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL);

This change looks unnecessary, but doesn't hurt.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 1:41:19 PM3/15/10
to Neil Horman, ak...@linux-foundation.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org
On 03/15, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the
> call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller.
> This patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in
> do_coredump to create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our
> recusrsion check). This lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the
> usermodehelper internals and factor call_usermodehelper out entirely.
> While I'm at it, we can also modify the helper setup to look for a core
> limit value of 1 rather than zero for our recursion check
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
> CC: Andi Kleen <an...@firstfloor.org>

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>

Neil Horman

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Mar 15, 2010, 1:56:31 PM3/15/10
to Oleg Nesterov, ak...@linux-foundation.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/15, Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > --- a/kernel/kmod.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kmod.c
> > @@ -116,27 +116,16 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
> >
> > trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);
> >
> > - ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
> > - wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
> > + ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
> > + wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
> > + NULL, NULL, NULL);
>
> This change looks unnecessary, but doesn't hurt.
>
Yeah, I concur, it was part of the origional patch, when that
call_usermodehelper had already been replaced with call_usermodehelper_cleanup.
I made my change anyway, figuring part of the purpose of this longer term would
be to convert the call_usermodehelper functions to the init/cleanup enabled
variants, which andi's patchset will eventually do here
Neil

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:48:23 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
On 03/15, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Hey, so I've rediffed and tested the user mode helper bits from my previous
> patch set that got wrecked when the rcustring bits got pulled.

More wrecked patches on top of Neil's refactoring.

None was changed, so I keeped the acks.

Oleg.

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:48:54 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change
subprocess_info->cred in advance. Now that we have info->init() we can
change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing
kernel thread.

Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with
UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup()
are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred()
which does key_get() on success.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhow...@redhat.com>
---

include/linux/kmod.h | 17 -----------------
kernel/kmod.c | 18 ------------------
security/keys/internal.h | 1 +
security/keys/process_keys.c | 3 +--
security/keys/request_key.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h~1_CONVERT_KEYS 2010-03-15 20:00:42.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehel
char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask);



/* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */

-void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
- struct key *session_keyring);


void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),

@@ -111,21 +109,6 @@ call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **a
NULL, NULL, NULL);
}

-static inline int
-call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
- struct key *session_keyring, enum umh_wait wait)
-{
- struct subprocess_info *info;
- gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
-
- info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
- if (info == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- call_usermodehelper_setkeys(info, session_keyring);
- return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
-}
-
extern void usermodehelper_init(void);

extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
--- 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c~1_CONVERT_KEYS 2010-03-15 20:00:42.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -367,24 +367,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehel
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup);

/**
- * call_usermodehelper_setkeys - set the session keys for usermode helper
- * @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
- * @session_keyring: the session keyring for the process
- */
-void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
- struct key *session_keyring)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
- struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = info->cred->tgcred;
- key_put(tgcred->session_keyring);
- tgcred->session_keyring = key_get(session_keyring);
-#else
- BUG();
-#endif
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setkeys);
-
-/**


* call_usermodehelper_setfns - set a cleanup/init function
* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @cleanup: a cleanup function

--- 34-rc1/security/keys/internal.h~1_CONVERT_KEYS 2009-09-11 19:07:59.000000000 +0200
+++ 34-rc1/security/keys/internal.h 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ extern struct key *find_keyring_by_name(
extern int install_user_keyrings(void);
extern int install_thread_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *);
extern int install_process_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *);
+extern int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *, struct key *);

extern struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
const char *description,
--- 34-rc1/security/keys/process_keys.c~1_CONVERT_KEYS 2009-09-11 19:07:59.000000000 +0200
+++ 34-rc1/security/keys/process_keys.c 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ static int install_process_keyring(void)
/*
* install a session keyring directly to a credentials struct
*/
-static int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *cred,
- struct key *keyring)
+int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *cred, struct key *keyring)
{
unsigned long flags;
struct key *old;
--- 34-rc1/security/keys/request_key.c~1_CONVERT_KEYS 2009-04-13 17:05:52.000000000 +0200
+++ 34-rc1/security/keys/request_key.c 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -58,6 +58,38 @@ void complete_request_key(struct key_con
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete_request_key);

+static int umh_keys_init(struct subprocess_info *info)
+{
+ struct cred *cred = (struct cred*)current_cred();
+ struct key *keyring = info->data;
+ /*
+ * This is called in context of freshly forked kthread before
+ * kernel_execve(), we can just change our ->session_keyring.
+ */
+ return install_session_keyring_to_cred(cred, keyring);
+}
+
+static void umh_keys_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
+{
+ struct key *keyring = info->data;
+ key_put(keyring);
+}
+
+static int call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+ struct key *session_keyring, enum umh_wait wait)
+{
+ gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
+ struct subprocess_info *info =
+ call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
+
+ if (!info)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, umh_keys_init, umh_keys_cleanup,
+ key_get(session_keyring));
+ return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
+}
+
/*
* request userspace finish the construction of a key
* - execute "/sbin/request-key <op> <key> <uid> <gid> <keyring> <keyring> <keyring>"

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:49:27 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this
member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the
context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred
copied from its parent kthread, keventd.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhow...@redhat.com>
---

include/linux/cred.h | 1
include/linux/kmod.h | 1
kernel/cred.c | 54 ---------------------------------------------------
kernel/kmod.c | 19 -----------------
4 files changed, 75 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/include/linux/cred.h~2_KILL_INFO_CRED 2010-03-11 13:11:50.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/include/linux/cred.h 2010-03-15 20:10:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ extern int copy_creds(struct task_struct
extern struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void);
extern struct cred *prepare_creds(void);
extern struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void);
-extern struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void);
extern int commit_creds(struct cred *);
extern void abort_creds(struct cred *);
extern const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *);
--- 34-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h~2_KILL_INFO_CRED 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h 2010-03-15 20:10:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ enum umh_wait {
struct subprocess_info {
struct work_struct work;


struct completion *complete;
- struct cred *cred;

char *path;
char **argv;
char **envp;
--- 34-rc1/kernel/cred.c~2_KILL_INFO_CRED 2010-02-15 11:15:21.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/cred.c 2010-03-15 20:10:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -347,60 +347,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void)
}

/*
- * prepare new credentials for the usermode helper dispatcher
- */
-struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
- struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = NULL;
-#endif
- struct cred *new;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
- tgcred = kzalloc(sizeof(*new->tgcred), GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!tgcred)
- return NULL;
-#endif
-
- new = kmem_cache_alloc(cred_jar, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!new)
- return NULL;
-
- kdebug("prepare_usermodehelper_creds() alloc %p", new);
-
- memcpy(new, &init_cred, sizeof(struct cred));
-
- atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
- set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
- get_group_info(new->group_info);
- get_uid(new->user);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
- new->thread_keyring = NULL;
- new->request_key_auth = NULL;
- new->jit_keyring = KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_DEFAULT;
-
- atomic_set(&tgcred->usage, 1);
- spin_lock_init(&tgcred->lock);
- new->tgcred = tgcred;
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
- new->security = NULL;
-#endif
- if (security_prepare_creds(new, &init_cred, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0)
- goto error;
- validate_creds(new);
-
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&new->usage) != 1);
- return new;
-
-error:
- put_cred(new);
- return NULL;
-}
-
-/*
* Copy credentials for the new process created by fork()
*
* We share if we can, but under some circumstances we have to generate a new
--- 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c~2_KILL_INFO_CRED 2010-03-15 20:04:34.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c 2010-03-15 20:10:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -134,8 +134,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void
struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
int retval;

- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
-
/* Unblock all signals */
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);
@@ -143,10 +141,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void
recalc_sigpending();
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);

- /* Install the credentials */
- commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
- sub_info->cred = NULL;
-


/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);

@@ -174,8 +168,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct
{
if (info->cleanup)
(*info->cleanup)(info);
- if (info->cred)
- put_cred(info->cred);
kfree(info);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_freeinfo);
@@ -231,8 +223,6 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct
pid_t pid;
enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait;

- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
-
/* CLONE_VFORK: wait until the usermode helper has execve'd
* successfully We need the data structures to stay around
* until that is done. */
@@ -355,12 +345,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehel


sub_info->path = path;
sub_info->argv = argv;
sub_info->envp = envp;

- sub_info->cred = prepare_usermodehelper_creds();
- if (!sub_info->cred) {
- kfree(sub_info);
- return NULL;
- }
-
out:
return sub_info;
}
@@ -411,9 +395,6 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subp
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
int retval = 0;

- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
- validate_creds(sub_info->cred);
-
helper_lock();
if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
goto out;

--

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:49:47 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
____call_usermodehelper() correctly calls flush_signal_handlers()
to set SIG_DFL, but sigemptyset(->blocked) and recalc_sigpending()
are not needed.

This kthread was forked by workqueue thread, all signals must be
unblocked and ignored, no pending signal is possible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
---

kernel/kmod.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c~3_DONT_UNBLOCK 2010-03-15 20:10:12.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c 2010-03-15 20:17:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -134,11 +134,8 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void

struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
int retval;

- /* Unblock all signals */


spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);

- sigemptyset(&current->blocked);
- recalc_sigpending();
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);



/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */

--

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:50:32 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
__call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) has 2 problems:

- if kernel_thread() fails, call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()
is not called.

- for unknown reason UMH_NO_WAIT has UMH_WAIT_PROC logic,
we spawn yet another thread which waits until the user
mode application exits.

Change the UMH_NO_WAIT code to use ____call_usermodehelper() instead of
wait_for_helper(), and do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() unconditionally.
We can rely on CLONE_VFORK, do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) until the child exits
or execs.

With or without this patch UMH_NO_WAIT does not report the error if
kernel_thread() fails, this is correct since the caller doesn't wait
for result.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
---

kernel/kmod.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c~5_UMH_NO_WAIT 2010-03-15 20:28:31.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c 2010-03-15 20:32:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -205,10 +205,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
sub_info->retval = ret;
}

- if (sub_info->wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
- else
- complete(sub_info->complete);
+ complete(sub_info->complete);
return 0;
}

@@ -217,13 +214,13 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info =
container_of(work, struct subprocess_info, work);
- pid_t pid;


enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait;

+ pid_t pid;



/* CLONE_VFORK: wait until the usermode helper has execve'd
* successfully We need the data structures to stay around
* until that is done. */

- if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC || wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
+ if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC)
pid = kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, sub_info,
CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
else
@@ -232,6 +229,7 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct

switch (wait) {
case UMH_NO_WAIT:
+ call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
break;

case UMH_WAIT_PROC:

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:50:35 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
1. wait_for_helper() calls allow_signal(SIGCHLD) to ensure the child
can't autoreap itself.

However, this means that a spurious SIGCHILD from user-space can
set TIF_SIGPENDING and:

- kernel_thread() or sys_wait4() can fail due to signal_pending()

- worse, wait4() can fail before ____call_usermodehelper() execs
or exits. In this case the caller may kfree(subprocess_info)
while the child still uses this memory.

Change the code to use SIG_DFL instead of magic "(void __user *)2"
set by allow_signal(). This means that SIGCHLD won't be delivered,
yet the child won't autoreap itsefl.

The problem is minor, only root can send a signal to this kthread.

2. If sys_wait4(&ret) fails it doesn't populate "ret", in this case
wait_for_helper() reports a random value from uninitialized var.

With this patch sys_wait4() should never fail, but still it makes
sense to initialize ret = -ECHILD so that the caller can notice
the problem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <ol...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nho...@tuxdriver.com>

---

kernel/kmod.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c~4_SIGCHLD_RACE 2010-03-15 20:17:47.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/kernel/kmod.c 2010-03-15 20:28:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -175,16 +175,16 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)


struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;

pid_t pid;

- /* Install a handler: if SIGCLD isn't handled sys_wait4 won't
- * populate the status, but will return -ECHILD. */
- allow_signal(SIGCHLD);
+ /* If SIGCLD is ignored sys_wait4 won't populate the status. */
+ spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+ current->sighand->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
+ spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);

pid = kernel_thread(____call_usermodehelper, sub_info, SIGCHLD);
if (pid < 0) {
sub_info->retval = pid;
} else {
- int ret;
-
+ int ret = -ECHILD;
/*
* Normally it is bogus to call wait4() from in-kernel because
* wait4() wants to write the exit code to a userspace address.

Oleg Nesterov

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Mar 15, 2010, 3:50:52 PM3/15/10
to Andrew Morton, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, an...@firstfloor.org, David Howells, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath
UMH_WAIT_EXEC should report the error if kernel_thread() fails, like