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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 /kernel/futex.c | |
| 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 'kernel/futex.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 28421d8210b8..4fe790e89d0f 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -439,15 +439,20 @@ static void free_pi_state(struct futex_pi_state *pi_state) static struct task_struct * futex_find_get_task(pid_t pid) { struct task_struct *p; - uid_t euid = current_euid(); + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *pcred; rcu_read_lock(); p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); - if (!p || (euid != p->cred->euid && - euid != p->cred->uid)) + if (!p) { p = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); - else - get_task_struct(p); + } else { + pcred = __task_cred(p); + if (cred->euid != pcred->euid && + cred->euid != pcred->uid) + p = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); + else + get_task_struct(p); + } rcu_read_unlock(); @@ -1831,7 +1836,7 @@ sys_get_robust_list(int pid, struct robust_list_head __user * __user *head_ptr, { struct robust_list_head __user *head; unsigned long ret; - uid_t euid = current_euid(); + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *pcred; if (!futex_cmpxchg_enabled) return -ENOSYS; @@ -1847,8 +1852,9 @@ sys_get_robust_list(int pid, struct robust_list_head __user * __user *head_ptr, if (!p) goto err_unlock; ret = -EPERM; - if (euid != p->cred->euid && - euid != p->cred->uid && + pcred = __task_cred(p); + if (cred->euid != pcred->euid && + cred->euid != pcred->uid && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) goto err_unlock; head = p->robust_list; |