[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan at sw.ru):
> struct utsname is copied from master one without any exclusion.
> 
> Here is sample output from one proggie doing
> 
> 	sethostname("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa");
> 	sethostname("bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb");
> 
> and another
> 
> 	clone(,, CLONE_NEWUTS, ...)
> 	uname()
> 
> 
> 	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbb'
> 	hostname = 'bbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
> 	hostname = 'aaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
> 	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb'
> 	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb'
> 	hostname = 'aaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
> 	hostname = 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
> 
> Hostname is sometimes corrupted.
> 
> Yes, even _the_ simplest namespace activity had bug in it. :-(
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at sw.ru>

picking my jaw up off the floor just long enough to type

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>

and limp away in shame

thanks Alexey,
-serge

> ---
> 
>  kernel/utsname.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/kernel/utsname.c
> +++ b/kernel/utsname.c
> @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *old_ns)
>  	if (!ns)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> +	down_read(&uts_sem);
>  	memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
> +	up_read(&uts_sem);
>  	kref_init(&ns->kref);
>  	return ns;
>  }
> 
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