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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-07-10 03:27:40 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-08-16 14:19:14 -0700
commitc6d59cb0341e2c3aed3eb65cbf166a686c3443aa (patch)
treee9d8f205f258516747544909774a59cfd441bd83
parent17dc3e97d6d51df33cb6e35fabb62b91ef14cf2c (diff)
mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
commit 704b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d upstream. The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds. Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it can't be changed to the new mm under us. Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 8764fffd737..f705cfd69e2 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -234,19 +234,19 @@ static int check_mem_permission(struct task_struct *task)
struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
{
- struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
- if (mm && mm != current->mm) {
- /*
- * task->mm can be changed before security check,
- * in that case we must notice the change after.
- */
- if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) ||
- mm != task->mm) {
- mmput(mm);
- mm = NULL;
- }
+ if (mutex_lock_killable(&task->cred_exec_mutex))
+ return NULL;
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ if (mm && mm != current->mm &&
+ !ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) {
+ mmput(mm);
+ mm = NULL;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&task->cred_exec_mutex);
+
return mm;
}