krb5 commit: Fix lock inconsistency in ctx_unlock()
Greg Hudson
ghudson at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 12 15:03:32 EDT 2012
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/29ee39baa919361ae08e26caab896890d5cb3eb4
commit 29ee39baa919361ae08e26caab896890d5cb3eb4
Author: Nicolas Williams <nico at cryptonector.com>
Date: Wed Sep 12 11:36:54 2012 -0500
Fix lock inconsistency in ctx_unlock()
The lock inconsistency fixed here is quite possibly the same as
described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586032 .
The problem is that ctx_unlock() fails to unlock the principal DB if
it fails to unlock the policy DB, and this happens when ctx_lock()
fails to lock the policy DB (likely because the caller is racing
against a kdb5_util load, which will be using a "permanent" lock,
meaning that the lock file will be unlinked after acquiring the
lock). The fix is to perform both unlock operations *then* handle
any errors that either or both might have returned.
Additionally, we don't really need or want to use non-blocking locks,
and we certainly don't want to sleep(1) in krb5kdc (possibly several
times, as there was a loop over this) when either of the principal or
policy DB is locked. Some callers still request non-blocking locks,
and ctx_lock() still honors this.
ticket: 7360 (new)
src/plugins/kdb/db2/kdb_db2.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/plugins/kdb/db2/kdb_db2.c b/src/plugins/kdb/db2/kdb_db2.c
index 87b6c18..62fbef7 100644
--- a/src/plugins/kdb/db2/kdb_db2.c
+++ b/src/plugins/kdb/db2/kdb_db2.c
@@ -383,12 +383,10 @@ done:
static krb5_error_code
ctx_unlock(krb5_context context, krb5_db2_context *dbc)
{
- krb5_error_code retval;
+ krb5_error_code retval, retval2;
DB *db;
retval = osa_adb_release_lock(dbc->policy_db);
- if (retval)
- return retval;
if (!dbc->db_locks_held) /* lock already unlocked */
return KRB5_KDB_NOTLOCKED;
@@ -399,9 +397,15 @@ ctx_unlock(krb5_context context, krb5_db2_context *dbc)
dbc->db = NULL;
dbc->db_lock_mode = 0;
- retval = krb5_lock_file(context, dbc->db_lf_file,
+ retval2 = krb5_lock_file(context, dbc->db_lf_file,
KRB5_LOCKMODE_UNLOCK);
+ if (retval2)
+ return retval2;
}
+
+ /* We may be unlocking because osa_adb_get_lock() failed. */
+ if (retval == OSA_ADB_NOTLOCKED)
+ return 0;
return retval;
}
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