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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 /fs/fcntl.c | |
| parent | 86a264abe542cfececb4df129bc45a0338d8cdb9 (diff) | |
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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 'fs/fcntl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fcntl.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c index c594cc0e40fb..87c39f1f0817 100644 --- a/fs/fcntl.c +++ b/fs/fcntl.c @@ -401,10 +401,17 @@ static const long band_table[NSIGPOLL] = { static inline int sigio_perm(struct task_struct *p, struct fown_struct *fown, int sig) { - return (((fown->euid == 0) || - (fown->euid == p->cred->suid) || (fown->euid == p->cred->uid) || - (fown->uid == p->cred->suid) || (fown->uid == p->cred->uid)) && - !security_file_send_sigiotask(p, fown, sig)); + const struct cred *cred; + int ret; + + rcu_read_lock(); + cred = __task_cred(p); + ret = ((fown->euid == 0 || + fown->euid == cred->suid || fown->euid == cred->uid || + fown->uid == cred->suid || fown->uid == cred->uid) && + !security_file_send_sigiotask(p, fown, sig)); + rcu_read_unlock(); + return ret; } static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p, |