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authorHeather McIntyre <[email protected]>2024-07-12 18:28:13 -0400
committerAaron Merey <[email protected]>2024-08-20 17:13:01 -0400
commitf3de289b5081bdcea6f867f1d87f006daf5a02ce (patch)
tree6e6d2fe35eba3ec1c27772299f3a5e9688b1d7e0 /libelf
parent17bb644d9adf16283d34243b0c2a0aba94b64dba (diff)
libelf: Fix deadlock in __libelf_readall
Apply locking during __libelf_readall. Signed-off-by: Heather S. McIntyre <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Aaron Merey <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'libelf')
-rw-r--r--libelf/common.h24
-rw-r--r--libelf/elf_readall.c4
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/libelf/common.h b/libelf/common.h
index 9b2a856d..8e33a70e 100644
--- a/libelf/common.h
+++ b/libelf/common.h
@@ -89,30 +89,34 @@ allocate_elf (int fildes, void *map_address, int64_t offset, size_t maxsize,
}
-/* Acquire lock for the descriptor and all children. */
+/* Caller must hold a lock for ELF. If there are children then a lock
+ will be acquired for each of them (recursively). */
static void
__attribute__ ((unused))
-libelf_acquire_all (Elf *elf)
+libelf_acquire_all_children (Elf *elf)
{
- rwlock_wrlock (elf->lock);
-
if (elf->kind == ELF_K_AR)
{
Elf *child = elf->state.ar.children;
while (child != NULL)
{
+ rwlock_wrlock (child->lock);
+
if (child->ref_count != 0)
- libelf_acquire_all (child);
+ libelf_acquire_all_children (child);
+
child = child->next;
}
}
}
-/* Release own lock and those of the children. */
+
+/* Caller must hold a lock for ELF. If there are children then a lock
+ will be released for each of them (recursively). */
static void
__attribute__ ((unused))
-libelf_release_all (Elf *elf)
+libelf_release_all_children (Elf *elf)
{
if (elf->kind == ELF_K_AR)
{
@@ -121,12 +125,12 @@ libelf_release_all (Elf *elf)
while (child != NULL)
{
if (child->ref_count != 0)
- libelf_release_all (child);
+ libelf_release_all_children (child);
+
+ rwlock_unlock (child->lock);
child = child->next;
}
}
-
- rwlock_unlock (elf->lock);
}
diff --git a/libelf/elf_readall.c b/libelf/elf_readall.c
index d0f9a28c..4ef8fe97 100644
--- a/libelf/elf_readall.c
+++ b/libelf/elf_readall.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ __libelf_readall (Elf *elf)
/* If this is an archive and we have derived descriptors get the
locks for all of them. */
- libelf_acquire_all (elf);
+ libelf_acquire_all_children (elf);
if (elf->maximum_size == ~((size_t) 0))
{
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ __libelf_readall (Elf *elf)
__libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_NOMEM);
/* Free the locks on the children. */
- libelf_release_all (elf);
+ libelf_release_all_children (elf);
}
rwlock_unlock (elf->lock);