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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2008-11-14 10:39:19 +1100 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-11-14 10:39:19 +1100 |
| commit | c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 (patch) | |
| tree | bed94aaa9aeb7a7834d1c880f72b62a11a752c78 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | 86a264abe542cfececb4df129bc45a0338d8cdb9 (diff) | |
CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index e0f6e1892fb..bbc22530f2c 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -160,7 +160,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p) int zap_leader; repeat: tracehook_prepare_release_task(p); - atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes); + /* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and + * can't be modifying its own credentials */ + atomic_dec(&__task_cred(p)->user->processes); + proc_flush_task(p); write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); tracehook_finish_release_task(p); @@ -1267,12 +1270,12 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct task_struct *p, int options, unsigned long state; int retval, status, traced; pid_t pid = task_pid_vnr(p); + uid_t uid = __task_cred(p)->uid; if (!likely(options & WEXITED)) return 0; if (unlikely(options & WNOWAIT)) { - uid_t uid = p->cred->uid; int exit_code = p->exit_code; int why, status; @@ -1393,7 +1396,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct task_struct *p, int options, if (!retval && infop) retval = put_user(pid, &infop->si_pid); if (!retval && infop) - retval = put_user(p->cred->uid, &infop->si_uid); + retval = put_user(uid, &infop->si_uid); if (!retval) retval = pid; @@ -1458,7 +1461,8 @@ static int wait_task_stopped(int ptrace, struct task_struct *p, if (!unlikely(options & WNOWAIT)) p->exit_code = 0; - uid = p->cred->uid; + /* don't need the RCU readlock here as we're holding a spinlock */ + uid = __task_cred(p)->uid; unlock_sig: spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); if (!exit_code) @@ -1532,10 +1536,10 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct task_struct *p, int options, } if (!unlikely(options & WNOWAIT)) p->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED; + uid = __task_cred(p)->uid; spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); pid = task_pid_vnr(p); - uid = p->cred->uid; get_task_struct(p); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); |