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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +1100 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +1100 |
commit | 3b11a1decef07c19443d24ae926982bc8ec9f4c0 (patch) | |
tree | b6555f0e5b07f4b2badd332a0a900b974920c49d /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | 98870ab0a5a3f1822aee681d2997017e1c87d026 (diff) | |
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CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.
task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.
task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running. These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.
__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.
current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.
prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).
override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds. These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.
In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm(). This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 82a7948a664e..af0d0f04585c 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) WARN_ON(atomic_read(&tsk->usage)); WARN_ON(tsk == current); + put_cred(tsk->real_cred); put_cred(tsk->cred); delayacct_tsk_free(tsk); @@ -961,10 +962,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!p->softirqs_enabled); #endif retval = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&p->cred->user->processes) >= + if (atomic_read(&p->real_cred->user->processes) >= p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur) { if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && - p->cred->user != current->nsproxy->user_ns->root_user) + p->real_cred->user != current->nsproxy->user_ns->root_user) goto bad_fork_free; } @@ -1278,6 +1279,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_put_domain: module_put(task_thread_info(p)->exec_domain->module); bad_fork_cleanup_count: atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes); + put_cred(p->real_cred); put_cred(p->cred); bad_fork_free: free_task(p); |