From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] pids: immprove get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:55:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116055518.GA28128@redhat.com> (raw)
sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe. We can
add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can
be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
--- CUR/kernel/pid.c~SP_2_wait 2009-01-12 23:07:49.000000000 +0100
+++ CUR/kernel/pid.c 2009-01-16 02:54:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_str
{
struct pid *pid;
rcu_read_lock();
+ if (type != PIDTYPE_PID)
+ task = task->group_leader;
pid = get_pid(task->pids[type].pid);
rcu_read_unlock();
return pid;
--- CUR/kernel/exit.c~SP_2_wait 2009-01-12 23:07:49.000000000 +0100
+++ CUR/kernel/exit.c 2009-01-16 02:51:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_wait4(pid_t upid, in
pid = find_get_pid(-upid);
} else if (upid == 0) {
type = PIDTYPE_PGID;
- pid = get_pid(task_pgrp(current));
+ pid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID);
} else /* upid > 0 */ {
type = PIDTYPE_PID;
pid = find_get_pid(upid);
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