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    Memory shortage can result in inconsistent flocks state · 84d535ad
    Pavel Emelyanov authored
    When the flock_lock_file() is called to change the flock
    from F_RDLCK to F_WRLCK or vice versa the existing flock
    can be removed without appropriate warning.
    
    Look:
            for_each_lock(inode, before) {
                    struct file_lock *fl = *before;
                    if (IS_POSIX(fl))
                            break;
                    if (IS_LEASE(fl))
                            continue;
                    if (filp != fl->fl_file)
                            continue;
                    if (request->fl_type == fl->fl_type)
                            goto out;
                    found = 1;
                    locks_delete_lock(before); <<<<<< !
                    break;
            }
    
    if after this point the subsequent locks_alloc_lock() will
    fail the return code will be -ENOMEM, but the existing lock
    is already removed.
    
    This is a known feature that such "re-locking" is not atomic,
    but in the racy case the file should stay locked (although by
    some other process), but in this case the file will be unlocked.
    
    The proposal is to prepare the lock in advance keeping no chance
    to fail in the future code.
    
    Found during making the flocks pid-namespaces aware.
    
    (Note: Thanks to Reuben Farrelly for finding a bug in an earlier version
    of this patch.)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
    Cc: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@reub.net>
    84d535ad
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