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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 84989124baf..2a64304ed54 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int next_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask) /* * allocate a new signal queue record * - this may be called without locks if and only if t == current, otherwise an - * appopriate lock must be held to protect t's user_struct + * appopriate lock must be held to stop the target task from exiting */ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, int override_rlimit) @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, * caller must be holding the RCU readlock (by way of a spinlock) and * we use RCU protection here */ - user = __task_cred(t)->user; + user = get_uid(__task_cred(t)->user); atomic_inc(&user->sigpending); if (override_rlimit || atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <= @@ -202,12 +202,14 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, q = kmem_cache_alloc(sigqueue_cachep, flags); if (unlikely(q == NULL)) { atomic_dec(&user->sigpending); + free_uid(user); } else { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->list); q->flags = 0; - q->user = get_uid(user); + q->user = user; } - return(q); + + return q; } static void __sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q) |