ipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl

Various forms of ipc use ipcctl_pre_down() to retrieve an ipc object and
check permissions, mostly for IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands.

Introduce ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(), a lockless version of this function.
The locking version is retained, yet modified to call the nolock version
without affecting its semantics, thus transparent to all ipc callers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <[email protected]>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Davidlohr Bueso 2013-04-30 19:15:24 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 444d0f621b
2 changed files with 29 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_obtain_object(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
void kernel_to_ipc64_perm(struct kern_ipc_perm *in, struct ipc64_perm *out);
void ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct ipc_perm *out);
int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct kern_ipc_perm *out);
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);