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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 /mm/mempolicy.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 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index b23492ee3e50..7555219c535b 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode, const unsigned long __user *old_nodes, const unsigned long __user *new_nodes) { - struct cred *cred, *tcred; + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; struct mm_struct *mm; struct task_struct *task; nodemask_t old; @@ -1145,14 +1145,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode, * capabilities, superuser privileges or the same * userid as the target process. */ - cred = current->cred; - tcred = task->cred; + rcu_read_lock(); + tcred = __task_cred(task); if (cred->euid != tcred->suid && cred->euid != tcred->uid && cred->uid != tcred->suid && cred->uid != tcred->uid && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); err = -EPERM; goto out; } + rcu_read_unlock(); task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(task); /* Is the user allowed to access the target nodes? */ |