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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2009-06-12 09:53:47 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2009-06-12 11:32:58 +0200
commit5b02ee3d219f9e01b6e9146e25613822cfc2e5ce (patch)
tree7ce9126738c3cf4b37d67170d0e4b34818c057a9 /fs/proc/base.c
parent26a28fa4fea5b8c65713aa50c124f76a88c7924d (diff)
parent8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff)
downloadlinux-5b02ee3d219f9e01b6e9146e25613822cfc2e5ce.tar.bz2
asm-generic: merge branch 'master' of torvalds/linux-2.6
Fixes a merge conflict against the x86 tree caused by a fix to atomic.h which I renamed to atomic_long.h. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/base.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 3326bbf9ab95..1539e630c47d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2128,9 +2128,15 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
if (copy_from_user(page, buf, count))
goto out_free;
+ /* Guard against adverse ptrace interaction */
+ length = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
+ if (length < 0)
+ goto out_free;
+
length = security_setprocattr(task,
(char*)file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
(void*)page, count);
+ mutex_unlock(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
out_free:
free_page((unsigned long) page);
out: