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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-23 09:12:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-23 09:12:26 -0700
commit57d19e80f459dd845fb3cfeba8e6df8471bac142 (patch)
tree8254766715720228db3d50f1ef3c7fe003c06d65 /kernel
parentee9ec4f82049c678373a611ce20ac67fe9ad836e (diff)
parente64851f5a0ad6ec991f74ebb3108c35aa0323d5f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/Kconfig.locks2
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c27
-rw-r--r--kernel/pm_qos_params.c2
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.locks b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
index 88c92fb4461..5068e2a4e75 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
@@ -199,4 +199,4 @@ config INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
def_bool !DEBUG_SPINLOCK && ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
config MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
- def_bool SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES && !HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
+ def_bool SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index b33513a08be..00d79df03e7 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -443,17 +443,25 @@ static int match_tree_refs(struct audit_context *ctx, struct audit_tree *tree)
/* Determine if any context name data matches a rule's watch data */
/* Compare a task_struct with an audit_rule. Return 1 on match, 0
- * otherwise. */
+ * otherwise.
+ *
+ * If task_creation is true, this is an explicit indication that we are
+ * filtering a task rule at task creation time. This and tsk == current are
+ * the only situations where tsk->cred may be accessed without an rcu read lock.
+ */
static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct audit_krule *rule,
struct audit_context *ctx,
struct audit_names *name,
- enum audit_state *state)
+ enum audit_state *state,
+ bool task_creation)
{
- const struct cred *cred = get_task_cred(tsk);
+ const struct cred *cred;
int i, j, need_sid = 1;
u32 sid;
+ cred = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->cred, tsk == current || task_creation);
+
for (i = 0; i < rule->field_count; i++) {
struct audit_field *f = &rule->fields[i];
int result = 0;
@@ -637,10 +645,8 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
break;
}
- if (!result) {
- put_cred(cred);
+ if (!result)
return 0;
- }
}
if (ctx) {
@@ -656,7 +662,6 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
case AUDIT_NEVER: *state = AUDIT_DISABLED; break;
case AUDIT_ALWAYS: *state = AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT; break;
}
- put_cred(cred);
return 1;
}
@@ -671,7 +676,8 @@ static enum audit_state audit_filter_task(struct task_struct *tsk, char **key)
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, &audit_filter_list[AUDIT_FILTER_TASK], list) {
- if (audit_filter_rules(tsk, &e->rule, NULL, NULL, &state)) {
+ if (audit_filter_rules(tsk, &e->rule, NULL, NULL,
+ &state, true)) {
if (state == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT)
*key = kstrdup(e->rule.filterkey, GFP_ATOMIC);
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -705,7 +711,7 @@ static enum audit_state audit_filter_syscall(struct task_struct *tsk,
list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, list, list) {
if ((e->rule.mask[word] & bit) == bit &&
audit_filter_rules(tsk, &e->rule, ctx, NULL,
- &state)) {
+ &state, false)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
ctx->current_state = state;
return state;
@@ -743,7 +749,8 @@ void audit_filter_inodes(struct task_struct *tsk, struct audit_context *ctx)
list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, list, list) {
if ((e->rule.mask[word] & bit) == bit &&
- audit_filter_rules(tsk, &e->rule, ctx, n, &state)) {
+ audit_filter_rules(tsk, &e->rule, ctx, n,
+ &state, false)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
ctx->current_state = state;
return;
diff --git a/kernel/pm_qos_params.c b/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
index 0da058bff8e..beb184689af 100644
--- a/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
+++ b/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static ssize_t pm_qos_power_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
s32 value;
unsigned long flags;
struct pm_qos_object *o;
- struct pm_qos_request_list *pm_qos_req = filp->private_data;;
+ struct pm_qos_request_list *pm_qos_req = filp->private_data;
if (!pm_qos_req)
return -EINVAL;