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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> | 2012-10-08 16:28:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:18 +0900 |
| commit | 2dd8ad81e31d0d36a5d448329c646ab43eb17788 (patch) | |
| tree | cd358be45ed8067673edac7f1db6b6a42a96d9db /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 0b173bc4daa8f8ec03a85abf5e47b23502ff80af (diff) | |
| download | linux-2dd8ad81e31d0d36a5d448329c646ab43eb17788.tar.bz2 | |
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/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a2b1efc20928..a57a993681ed 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) |