From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>, Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] wait_task_stopped: don't use task_pid_nr_ns() lockless
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:28:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4741573E.60609@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071116172408.GA7293@tv-sign.ru>
Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> wait_task_stopped(WNOWAIT) does task_pid_nr_ns() without tasklist/rcu lock,
> we can read an already freed memory. Use the cached pid_t value.
Indeed. Thanks!
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
> --- 24/kernel/exit.c~1_PID 2007-11-16 18:12:44.000000000 +0300
> +++ 24/kernel/exit.c 2007-11-16 18:13:54.000000000 +0300
> @@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ static int wait_task_stopped(struct task
> int __user *stat_addr, struct rusage __user *ru)
> {
> int retval, exit_code;
> - struct pid_namespace *ns;
> + pid_t pid;
>
> if (!p->exit_code)
> return 0;
> @@ -1376,12 +1376,11 @@ static int wait_task_stopped(struct task
> * keep holding onto the tasklist_lock while we call getrusage and
> * possibly take page faults for user memory.
> */
> - ns = current->nsproxy->pid_ns;
> + pid = task_pid_nr_ns(p, current->nsproxy->pid_ns);
> get_task_struct(p);
> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>
> if (unlikely(noreap)) {
> - pid_t pid = task_pid_nr_ns(p, ns);
> uid_t uid = p->uid;
> int why = (p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) ? CLD_TRAPPED : CLD_STOPPED;
>
> @@ -1451,11 +1450,11 @@ bail_ref:
> if (!retval && infop)
> retval = put_user(exit_code, &infop->si_status);
> if (!retval && infop)
> - retval = put_user(task_pid_nr_ns(p, ns), &infop->si_pid);
> + retval = put_user(pid, &infop->si_pid);
> if (!retval && infop)
> retval = put_user(p->uid, &infop->si_uid);
> if (!retval)
> - retval = task_pid_nr_ns(p, ns);
> + retval = pid;
> put_task_struct(p);
>
> BUG_ON(!retval);
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-19 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-16 17:24 [PATCH 1/3] wait_task_stopped: don't use task_pid_nr_ns() lockless Oleg Nesterov
2007-11-16 19:54 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 9:28 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
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