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Vasily Averin 5e698222c7 ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index
Commit 89163f93c6 ("ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase
position index") is causing this bug (seen on 5.6.8):

   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages

   # ipcmk -Q
   Message queue id: 0
   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
   0x82db8127 0          root       644        0            0

   # ipcmk -Q
   Message queue id: 1
   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
   0x82db8127 0          root       644        0            0
   0x76d1fb2a 1          root       644        0            0

   # ipcrm -q 0
   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
   0x76d1fb2a 1          root       644        0            0
   0x76d1fb2a 1          root       644        0            0

   # ipcmk -Q
   Message queue id: 2
   # ipcrm -q 2
   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
   0x76d1fb2a 1          root       644        0            0
   0x76d1fb2a 1          root       644        0            0

   # ipcmk -Q
   Message queue id: 3
   # ipcrm -q 1
   # ipcs -q

   ------ Message Queues --------
   key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
   0x7c982867 3          root       644        0            0
   0x7c982867 3          root       644        0            0
   0x7c982867 3          root       644        0            0
   0x7c982867 3          root       644        0            0

Whenever an IPC item with a low id is deleted, the items with higher ids
are duplicated, as if filling a hole.

new_pos should jump through hole of unused ids, pos can be updated
inside "for" cycle.

Fixes: 89163f93c6 ("ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index")
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
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