ipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl

Various forms of ipc use ipcctl_pre_down() to retrieve an ipc object and
check permissions, mostly for IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands.

Introduce ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(), a lockless version of this function.
The locking version is retained, yet modified to call the nolock version
without affecting its semantics, thus transparent to all ipc callers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index bfc8d4ea6e46..13d92fea15a3 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_obtain_object(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
 void kernel_to_ipc64_perm(struct kern_ipc_perm *in, struct ipc64_perm *out);
 void ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct ipc_perm *out);
 int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct kern_ipc_perm *out);
+struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
+                                             struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
+                                             struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);
 struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
                                       struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
                                       struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);