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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