From f31e799459659ae88c341aeac16a8a5efb1271d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:28:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] selinux: no recursive read_lock of policy_rwlock in security_genfs_sid() With the introduction of fair queued rwlock, recursive read_lock() may hang the offending process if there is a write_lock() somewhere in between. With recursive read_lock checking enabled, the following error was reported: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 3.16.0-rc1 #2 Tainted: G E --------------------------------------------- load_policy/708 is trying to acquire lock: (policy_rwlock){.+.+..}, at: [] security_genfs_sid+0x3a/0x170 but task is already holding lock: (policy_rwlock){.+.+..}, at: [] security_fs_use+0x2c/0x110 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(policy_rwlock); lock(policy_rwlock); This patch fixes the occurrence of recursive read_lock() of policy_rwlock by adding a helper function __security_genfs_sid() which requires caller to take the lock before calling it. The security_fs_use() was then modified to call the new helper function. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore --- Reading git-format-patch failed