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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 /drivers/connector | |
| parent | 86a264abe542cfececb4df129bc45a0338d8cdb9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4.tar.gz lwn-c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4.zip | |
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 'drivers/connector')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/connector/cn_proc.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c b/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c index 354c1ff17159..c5afc98e2675 100644 --- a/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c +++ b/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id) struct proc_event *ev; __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE]; struct timespec ts; + const struct cred *cred; if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1) return; @@ -115,14 +116,19 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id) ev->what = which_id; ev->event_data.id.process_pid = task->pid; ev->event_data.id.process_tgid = task->tgid; + rcu_read_lock(); + cred = __task_cred(task); if (which_id == PROC_EVENT_UID) { - ev->event_data.id.r.ruid = task->cred->uid; - ev->event_data.id.e.euid = task->cred->euid; + ev->event_data.id.r.ruid = cred->uid; + ev->event_data.id.e.euid = cred->euid; } else if (which_id == PROC_EVENT_GID) { - ev->event_data.id.r.rgid = task->cred->gid; - ev->event_data.id.e.egid = task->cred->egid; - } else + ev->event_data.id.r.rgid = cred->gid; + ev->event_data.id.e.egid = cred->egid; + } else { + rcu_read_unlock(); return; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu); ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */ put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns); |