svn commit: r272505 - in head/sys: kern sys

Stefan Farfeleder stefanf at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 5 16:40:05 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 02:21:54PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 04 Oct 2014, at 08:08 , Mateusz Guzik <mjg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: mjg
> > Date: Sat Oct  4 08:08:56 2014
> > New Revision: 272505
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/272505
> > 
> > Log:
> >  Plug capability races.
> > 
> >  fp and appropriate capability lookups were not atomic, which could result in
> >  improper capabilities being checked.
> > 
> >  This could result either in protection bypass or in a spurious ENOTCAPABLE.
> > 
> >  Make fp + capability check atomic with the help of sequence counters.
> > 
> >  Reviewed by:	kib
> >  MFC after:	3 weeks
> > 
> > Modified:
> >  head/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c
> >  head/sys/sys/filedesc.h
> > …
> 
> 
> This file is included from user space.  There is no opt_capsicum.h there.
> Including an opt_* in the header file seems wrong in a lot of ways usually.
> 
> I tried to add a bandaid for the moment with r272523 which (to be honest) makes it worse.
> 
> This needs a better fix.

Hi,

this also breaks the nvidia-driver port (also with your fix).

BR,
Stefan


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