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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 10:39:17 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 10:39:17 +1100
commitf1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27 (patch)
tree16bc51166d38815092de36a461b845b0b4b522f9 /kernel/fork.c
parentb6dff3ec5e116e3af6f537d4caedcad6b9e5082a (diff)
downloadlinux-f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27.tar.bz2
CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct
Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process() and releasing them in __put_task_struct(). 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 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c24
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 81fdc7733908..c932e283ddfc 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
WARN_ON(atomic_read(&tsk->usage));
WARN_ON(tsk == current);
- security_task_free(tsk);
- free_uid(tsk->__temp_cred.user);
- put_group_info(tsk->__temp_cred.group_info);
+ put_cred(tsk->cred);
delayacct_tsk_free(tsk);
if (!profile_handoff_task(tsk))
@@ -969,7 +967,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!p->hardirqs_enabled);
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!p->softirqs_enabled);
#endif
- p->cred = &p->__temp_cred;
retval = -EAGAIN;
if (atomic_read(&p->cred->user->processes) >=
p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur) {
@@ -978,9 +975,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
goto bad_fork_free;
}
- atomic_inc(&p->cred->user->__count);
- atomic_inc(&p->cred->user->processes);
- get_group_info(p->cred->group_info);
+ retval = copy_creds(p, clone_flags);
+ if (retval < 0)
+ goto bad_fork_free;
/*
* If multiple threads are within copy_process(), then this check
@@ -1035,9 +1032,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&p->start_time);
p->real_start_time = p->start_time;
monotonic_to_bootbased(&p->real_start_time);
-#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
- p->cred->security = NULL;
-#endif
p->io_context = NULL;
p->audit_context = NULL;
cgroup_fork(p);
@@ -1082,10 +1076,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
/* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */
sched_fork(p, clone_flags);
- if ((retval = security_task_alloc(p)))
- goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy;
if ((retval = audit_alloc(p)))
- goto bad_fork_cleanup_security;
+ goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy;
/* copy all the process information */
if ((retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p)))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_audit;
@@ -1284,8 +1276,6 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo:
exit_sem(p);
bad_fork_cleanup_audit:
audit_free(p);
-bad_fork_cleanup_security:
- security_task_free(p);
bad_fork_cleanup_policy:
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
mpol_put(p->mempolicy);
@@ -1298,9 +1288,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_cgroup:
bad_fork_cleanup_put_domain:
module_put(task_thread_info(p)->exec_domain->module);
bad_fork_cleanup_count:
- put_group_info(p->cred->group_info);
- atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes);
- free_uid(p->cred->user);
+ put_cred(p->cred);
bad_fork_free:
free_task(p);
fork_out: