From 0c9591e78e2dde262865e3c683d2fbd80692d4ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:16:23 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] udevd: close race in udev settle

The udev-settle guarantees that udevd is no longer processing any of the

events casued by udev-trigger. The way this works is that it sends a

synchronous PING to udevd after udev-trigger has ran, and when that returns

it knows that udevd has started processing the events from udev-trigger.

udev-settle will then wait for the event queue to empty before returning.

However, there was a race here, as we would only update the /run state at

the beginning of the event loop, before reading out new events and before

processing the ping.

That means that if the first uevent arrived in the same event-loop iteration

as the PING, we would return the ping before updating the queue state in /run

(which would happen on the next iteration).

The race window here is tiny (as the /run state would probably get updated

before udev-settle got a chance to read /run), but still a possibility.

Fix the problem by updating the /run state as the last step before returning

the PING.

We must still update it at the beginning of the loop as well, otherwise we

risk being stuck in poll() with a stale state in /run.

Reported-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>

(cherry picked from commit db93e063bdffe0a8b95fcc522aeacddf62d1a9f9)

---

 src/udev/udevd.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------

 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/udev/udevd.c b/src/udev/udevd.c

index 99d4c8983a..e98c1fd6da 100644

--- a/src/udev/udevd.c

+++ b/src/udev/udevd.c

@@ -909,6 +909,17 @@ static void handle_signal(struct udev *udev, int signo) {

         }

 }

+static void event_queue_update(void) {

+        if (!udev_list_node_is_empty(&event_list)) {

+                int fd;

+

+                fd = open("/run/udev/queue", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC|O_TRUNC|O_NOFOLLOW, 0444);

+                if (fd >= 0)

+                       close(fd);

+        } else

+                unlink("/run/udev/queue");

+}

+

 static int systemd_fds(struct udev *udev, int *rctrl, int *rnetlink) {

         int ctrl = -1, netlink = -1;

         int fd, n;

@@ -1369,15 +1380,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

                 }

                 /* tell settle that we are busy or idle */

-                if (!udev_list_node_is_empty(&event_list)) {

-                        int fd;

-

-                        fd = open("/run/udev/queue", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC|O_TRUNC|O_NOFOLLOW, 0444);

-                        if (fd >= 0)

-                                close(fd);

-                } else {

-                        unlink("/run/udev/queue");

-                }

+                event_queue_update();

                 fdcount = epoll_wait(fd_ep, ev, ELEMENTSOF(ev), timeout);

                 if (fdcount < 0)

@@ -1502,6 +1505,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

                 if (is_inotify)

                         handle_inotify(udev);

+                /* tell settle that we are busy or idle, this needs to be before the

+                 * PING handling

+                 */

+                event_queue_update();

+

                 /*

                  * This needs to be after the inotify handling, to make sure,

                  * that the ping is send back after the possibly generated