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Commit e7850f4d authored by Lior Ribak's avatar Lior Ribak Committed by Linus Torvalds
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binfmt_misc: fix possible deadlock in bm_register_write

There is a deadlock in bm_register_write:

First, in the begining of the function, a lock is taken on the binfmt_misc
root inode with inode_lock(d_inode(root)).

Then, if the user used the MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE flag, the function will call
open_exec on the user-provided interpreter.

open_exec will call a path lookup, and if the path lookup process includes
the root of binfmt_misc, it will try to take a shared lock on its inode
again, but it is already locked, and the code will get stuck in a deadlock

To reproduce the bug:
$ echo ":iiiii:E::ii::/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/bla:F" > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

backtrace of where the lock occurs (#5):
0  schedule () at ./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15
1  0xffffffff81b51237 in rwsem_down_read_slowpath (sem=0xffff888003b202e0, count=<optimized out>, state=state@entry=2) at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:992
2  0xffffffff81b5150a in __down_read_common (state=2, sem=<optimized out>) at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1...
parent 184cee51
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