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ipc: sysvsem: implement sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM)

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sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) doesn't handle the undo lists properly, this can
cause a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing
undo lists.

Fix, part 1: add support for sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM)

The original reason to not support it was the potential (inevitable?)
confusion due to the fact that sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) has the
inverse meaning of clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM).

Our two most reasonable options then appear to be (1) fully support
CLONE_SYSVSEM, or (2) continue to refuse explicit CLONE_SYSVSEM,
but always do it anyway on unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM).  This patch does
(1).

Changelog:
	Apr 16: SEH: switch to Manfred's alternative patch which
		removes the unshare_semundo() function which
		always refused CLONE_SYSVSEM.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Manfred Spraul 2008-04-29 01:00:57 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 9edff4ab1f
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@ -1250,6 +1250,7 @@ void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk)
undo_list = tsk->sysvsem.undo_list;
if (!undo_list)
return;
tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = NULL;
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&undo_list->refcnt))
return;