From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c') diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 0e66556..9142ff5 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1361,6 +1361,7 @@ static void fill_prstatus(struct elf_prstatus *prstatus, static int fill_psinfo(struct elf_prpsinfo *psinfo, struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm) { + const struct cred *cred; unsigned int i, len; /* first copy the parameters from user space */ @@ -1388,8 +1389,11 @@ static int fill_psinfo(struct elf_prpsinfo *psinfo, struct task_struct *p, psinfo->pr_zomb = psinfo->pr_sname == 'Z'; psinfo->pr_nice = task_nice(p); psinfo->pr_flag = p->flags; - SET_UID(psinfo->pr_uid, p->cred->uid); - SET_GID(psinfo->pr_gid, p->cred->gid); + rcu_read_lock(); + cred = __task_cred(p); + SET_UID(psinfo->pr_uid, cred->uid); + SET_GID(psinfo->pr_gid, cred->gid); + rcu_read_unlock(); strncpy(psinfo->pr_fname, p->comm, sizeof(psinfo->pr_fname)); return 0; -- cgit v1.1