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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 /arch/ia64/kernel | |
| parent | 86a264abe542cfececb4df129bc45a0338d8cdb9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4.tar.bz2 | |
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 'arch/ia64/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index dd38db46a77a..0e499757309b 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -2399,25 +2399,33 @@ error_kmem: static int pfm_bad_permissions(struct task_struct *task) { + const struct cred *tcred; uid_t uid = current_uid(); gid_t gid = current_gid(); + int ret; + + rcu_read_lock(); + tcred = __task_cred(task); /* inspired by ptrace_attach() */ DPRINT(("cur: uid=%d gid=%d task: euid=%d suid=%d uid=%d egid=%d sgid=%d\n", uid, gid, - task->euid, - task->suid, - task->uid, - task->egid, - task->sgid)); - - return (uid != task->euid) - || (uid != task->suid) - || (uid != task->uid) - || (gid != task->egid) - || (gid != task->sgid) - || (gid != task->gid)) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE); + tcred->euid, + tcred->suid, + tcred->uid, + tcred->egid, + tcred->sgid)); + + ret = ((uid != tcred->euid) + || (uid != tcred->suid) + || (uid != tcred->uid) + || (gid != tcred->egid) + || (gid != tcred->sgid) + || (gid != tcred->gid)) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE); + + rcu_read_unlock(); + return ret; } static int |