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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>2012-10-08 16:28:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:18 +0900
commit2dd8ad81e31d0d36a5d448329c646ab43eb17788 (patch)
treecd358be45ed8067673edac7f1db6b6a42a96d9db /kernel
parent0b173bc4daa8f8ec03a85abf5e47b23502ff80af (diff)
mm: use mm->exe_file instead of first VM_EXECUTABLE vma->vm_file
Some security modules and oprofile still uses VM_EXECUTABLE for retrieving a task's executable file. After this patch they will use mm->exe_file directly. mm->exe_file is protected with mm->mmap_sem, so locking stays the same. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [arch/tile] Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> [tomoyo] Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c13
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 29e090cc0e4..f4a7756f999 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,6 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk)
const struct cred *cred;
char name[sizeof(tsk->comm)];
struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
- struct vm_area_struct *vma;
char *tty;
if (!ab)
@@ -1191,16 +1190,8 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk)
if (mm) {
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- vma = mm->mmap;
- while (vma) {
- if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) &&
- vma->vm_file) {
- audit_log_d_path(ab, " exe=",
- &vma->vm_file->f_path);
- break;
- }
- vma = vma->vm_next;
- }
+ if (mm->exe_file)
+ audit_log_d_path(ab, " exe=", &mm->exe_file->f_path);
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
}
audit_log_task_context(ab);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a2b1efc2092..a57a993681e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -656,8 +656,7 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct file *exe_file;
- /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of
- * VM_EXECUTABLE vmas */
+ /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of exe_file */
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
exe_file = mm->exe_file;
if (exe_file)