From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2] proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:25:21 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110828092520.GA8537@sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110827190147.GA3015@albatros>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:01:47PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
...
>
> +static int proc_pid_fd_link_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
> + struct kstat *stat)
> +{
> + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> + struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
> + int rc;
> +
Are we sure if the task will be always valid here?
if (!task)
return -ENOENT;
Cyrill
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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:25:21 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110828092520.GA8537@sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110827190147.GA3015@albatros>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:01:47PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
...
>
> +static int proc_pid_fd_link_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
> + struct kstat *stat)
> +{
> + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> + struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
> + int rc;
> +
Are we sure if the task will be always valid here?
if (!task)
return -ENOENT;
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-28 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-04 16:20 [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] proc: fix races of /proc/PID/{fd/,fdinfo/,fdinfo/*} Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-04 16:20 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-23 21:44 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrew Morton
2011-08-23 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-26 13:29 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] proc: fix races against execve() " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-26 13:29 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-26 19:40 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrew Morton
2011-08-26 19:40 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-27 19:01 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v2] proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd** Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-27 19:01 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-27 19:08 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-27 19:08 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-28 9:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2011-08-28 9:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-28 9:31 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-28 9:31 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-29 18:00 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v3] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-29 18:00 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-29 23:00 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrew Morton
2011-08-29 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-29 23:02 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrew Morton
2011-08-29 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
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