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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_compat.c | |
| 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 'kernel/futex_compat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex_compat.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex_compat.c b/kernel/futex_compat.c index 2c3fd5ed34f5..d607a5b9ee29 100644 --- a/kernel/futex_compat.c +++ b/kernel/futex_compat.c @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __user *head_ptr, { struct compat_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; @@ -151,8 +151,9 @@ compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __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->compat_robust_list; |