From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- mm/mempolicy.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c') diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index b23492ee3e5..7555219c535 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode, const unsigned long __user *old_nodes, const unsigned long __user *new_nodes) { - struct cred *cred, *tcred; + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; struct mm_struct *mm; struct task_struct *task; nodemask_t old; @@ -1145,14 +1145,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode, * capabilities, superuser privileges or the same * userid as the target process. */ - cred = current->cred; - tcred = task->cred; + rcu_read_lock(); + tcred = __task_cred(task); if (cred->euid != tcred->suid && cred->euid != tcred->uid && cred->uid != tcred->suid && cred->uid != tcred->uid && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); err = -EPERM; goto out; } + rcu_read_unlock(); task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(task); /* Is the user allowed to access the target nodes? */ -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258