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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 10:39:19 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 10:39:19 +1100
commitc69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 (patch)
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parent86a264abe542cfececb4df129bc45a0338d8cdb9 (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 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c49
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 80e8a6489f97..84989124bafb 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ int next_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask)
return sig;
}
+/*
+ * allocate a new signal queue record
+ * - this may be called without locks if and only if t == current, otherwise an
+ * appopriate lock must be held to protect t's user_struct
+ */
static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
int override_rlimit)
{
@@ -184,11 +189,12 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
struct user_struct *user;
/*
- * In order to avoid problems with "switch_user()", we want to make
- * sure that the compiler doesn't re-load "t->user"
+ * We won't get problems with the target's UID changing under us
+ * because changing it requires RCU be used, and if t != current, the
+ * caller must be holding the RCU readlock (by way of a spinlock) and
+ * we use RCU protection here
*/
- user = t->cred->user;
- barrier();
+ user = __task_cred(t)->user;
atomic_inc(&user->sigpending);
if (override_rlimit ||
atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <=
@@ -562,12 +568,13 @@ static int rm_from_queue(unsigned long mask, struct sigpending *s)
/*
* Bad permissions for sending the signal
+ * - the caller must hold at least the RCU read lock
*/
static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *t)
{
+ const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
struct pid *sid;
- uid_t uid, euid;
int error;
if (!valid_signal(sig))
@@ -580,10 +587,11 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
if (error)
return error;
- uid = current_uid();
- euid = current_euid();
- if ((euid ^ t->cred->suid) && (euid ^ t->cred->uid) &&
- (uid ^ t->cred->suid) && (uid ^ t->cred->uid) &&
+ tcred = __task_cred(t);
+ if ((cred->euid ^ tcred->suid) &&
+ (cred->euid ^ tcred->uid) &&
+ (cred->uid ^ tcred->suid) &&
+ (cred->uid ^ tcred->uid) &&
!capable(CAP_KILL)) {
switch (sig) {
case SIGCONT:
@@ -1011,6 +1019,10 @@ struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long
return sighand;
}
+/*
+ * send signal info to all the members of a group
+ * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock at least
+ */
int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1032,8 +1044,8 @@ int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p)
/*
* __kill_pgrp_info() sends a signal to a process group: this is what the tty
* control characters do (^C, ^Z etc)
+ * - the caller must hold at least a readlock on tasklist_lock
*/
-
int __kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp)
{
struct task_struct *p = NULL;
@@ -1089,6 +1101,7 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid,
{
int ret = -EINVAL;
struct task_struct *p;
+ const struct cred *pcred;
if (!valid_signal(sig))
return ret;
@@ -1099,9 +1112,11 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid,
ret = -ESRCH;
goto out_unlock;
}
- if ((info == SEND_SIG_NOINFO || (!is_si_special(info) && SI_FROMUSER(info)))
- && (euid != p->cred->suid) && (euid != p->cred->uid)
- && (uid != p->cred->suid) && (uid != p->cred->uid)) {
+ pcred = __task_cred(p);
+ if ((info == SEND_SIG_NOINFO ||
+ (!is_si_special(info) && SI_FROMUSER(info))) &&
+ euid != pcred->suid && euid != pcred->uid &&
+ uid != pcred->suid && uid != pcred->uid) {
ret = -EPERM;
goto out_unlock;
}
@@ -1372,10 +1387,9 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
*/
rcu_read_lock();
info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, tsk->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns);
+ info.si_uid = __task_cred(tsk)->uid;
rcu_read_unlock();
- info.si_uid = tsk->cred->uid;
-
thread_group_cputime(tsk, &cputime);
info.si_utime = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime.utime);
info.si_stime = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime.stime);
@@ -1443,10 +1457,9 @@ static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk, int why)
*/
rcu_read_lock();
info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, tsk->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns);
+ info.si_uid = __task_cred(tsk)->uid;
rcu_read_unlock();
- info.si_uid = tsk->cred->uid;
-
info.si_utime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->utime);
info.si_stime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->stime);
@@ -1713,7 +1726,7 @@ static int ptrace_signal(int signr, siginfo_t *info,
info->si_errno = 0;
info->si_code = SI_USER;
info->si_pid = task_pid_vnr(current->parent);
- info->si_uid = current->parent->cred->uid;
+ info->si_uid = task_uid(current->parent);
}
/* If the (new) signal is now blocked, requeue it. */