Bug 205618 - CVE-2006-4342 shmat hangs by simultaneous shmctl(IPC_RMID)
Summary: CVE-2006-4342 shmat hangs by simultaneous shmctl(IPC_RMID)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sachin Prabhu
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,source=redhat,report...
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-07 17:09 UTC by Issue Tracker
Modified: 2018-10-19 19:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0710
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-10-19 12:45:30 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Reproducer (675 bytes, application/x-gzip)
2006-09-07 17:11 UTC, Sachin Prabhu 		no flags Details
Proposed Patch (1.62 KB, patch)
2006-09-07 17:12 UTC, Sachin Prabhu 		no flags Details | Diff
Proposed Patch (1.92 KB, patch)
2006-09-15 06:54 UTC, Sachin Prabhu 		no flags Details | Diff
Proposed Patch (1.94 KB, patch)
2006-09-19 06:20 UTC, Sachin Prabhu 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0710 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2006-10-19 12:39:53 UTC

Description Issue Tracker 2006-09-07 17:09:26 UTC 
Escalated to Bugzilla from IssueTracker
Comment 6 Sachin Prabhu 2006-09-07 17:12:04 UTC 
Created attachment 135788 [details]
Proposed Patch
Comment 12 Sachin Prabhu 2006-09-15 06:54:43 UTC 
Created attachment 136333 [details]
Proposed Patch

Added write locks around kfree to resolve a memory corruption issue.
Comment 14 Sachin Prabhu 2006-09-19 06:20:02 UTC 
Created attachment 136605 [details]
Proposed Patch

moved br_write_lock and unlock to ipc_unlock_deleted
Comment 15 Sachin Prabhu 2006-09-20 07:51:01 UTC 
Deadlock happens on smp machines when a shmat() function runs at the same time
that shmctl() is used to remove the same shm. While the shmat process waits at
the spinlock in ipc_lock function, the shmctl function deletes the path to the
kern_ipc_perm structure which holds the spinlock variable and frees the memory
location. Because of this, the ipc_unlock() run for shmctl() does not unlock the
spinlock and the shmat waits indefinitely at the spinlock.

This is serious issue for RHEL3 users especially applications using IPC
shared-memory. This deadlock brings other deadlock in IPC features (ex. IPC
semaphore) since deadlocked process holds readlock of BR_SEMAPHORE_LOCK which
are shared by all IPC features.

The code in question was backported from the 2.5 kernel with the patch
linux-2.4.21-semaphore-scale.patch by Ingo Molnar. This code does not appear
upstream in the 2.4 kernels. The Red Hat implementation on the 2.4 kernel is
done using 'Big Reader' read-write locks. The patch was written by modifying the
code from the patch provided in bz # 91146 to use brlocks.  The attached
reproducer recreates the issue.
Comment 22 Ernie Petrides 2006-09-23 01:08:09 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U9
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-47.1.EL).
Comment 28 Ernie Petrides 2006-10-13 21:51:20 UTC 
A fix for this problem has also been committed to the RHEL3 E9
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL).
Comment 34 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-10-19 12:45:32 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html
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