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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/tsacct.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 'kernel/tsacct.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/tsacct.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c index 6d1ed07bf312..2dc06ab35716 100644 --- a/kernel/tsacct.c +++ b/kernel/tsacct.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ */ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk) { + const struct cred *tcred; struct timespec uptime, ts; u64 ac_etime; @@ -53,10 +54,11 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk) stats->ac_flag |= AXSIG; stats->ac_nice = task_nice(tsk); stats->ac_sched = tsk->policy; - stats->ac_uid = tsk->cred->uid; - stats->ac_gid = tsk->cred->gid; stats->ac_pid = tsk->pid; rcu_read_lock(); + tcred = __task_cred(tsk); + stats->ac_uid = tcred->uid; + stats->ac_gid = tcred->gid; stats->ac_ppid = pid_alive(tsk) ? rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent)->tgid : 0; rcu_read_unlock(); |