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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 /security/keys/permission.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 'security/keys/permission.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/keys/permission.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/permission.c b/security/keys/permission.c index baf3d5f31e71..13c36164f284 100644 --- a/security/keys/permission.c +++ b/security/keys/permission.c @@ -22,13 +22,16 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref, struct task_struct *context, key_perm_t perm) { - struct cred *cred = context->cred; + const struct cred *cred; struct key *key; key_perm_t kperm; int ret; key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref); + rcu_read_lock(); + cred = __task_cred(context); + /* use the second 8-bits of permissions for keys the caller owns */ if (key->uid == cred->fsuid) { kperm = key->perm >> 16; @@ -43,10 +46,7 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref, goto use_these_perms; } - spin_lock(&cred->lock); ret = groups_search(cred->group_info, key->gid); - spin_unlock(&cred->lock); - if (ret) { kperm = key->perm >> 8; goto use_these_perms; @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref, kperm = key->perm; use_these_perms: + rcu_read_lock(); + /* use the top 8-bits of permissions for keys the caller possesses * - possessor permissions are additive with other permissions */ |