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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: bfields@fieldses.org, steved@redhat.com,
	rasmus-tUP8e6pgWdNlY7y4Fx5NiA@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] NFSD: Don't hold unrefcounted creds over call to nfsd_setuser()
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:35:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090702133532.28297.89635.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)

nfsd_open() gets an unrefcounted pointer to the current process's effective
credentials at the top of the function, then calls nfsd_setuser() via
fh_verify() - which may replace and destroy the current process's effective
credentials - and then passes the unrefcounted pointer to dentry_open() - but
the credentials may have been destroyed by this point.

Instead, the value from current_cred() should be passed directly to
dentry_open() as one of its arguments, rather than being cached in a variable.

Possibly fh_verify() should return the creds to use.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 fs/nfsd/vfs.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 4145083..23341c1 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -678,7 +678,6 @@ __be32
 nfsd_open(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, int type,
 			int access, struct file **filp)
 {
-	const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
 	struct dentry	*dentry;
 	struct inode	*inode;
 	int		flags = O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE;
@@ -733,7 +732,7 @@ nfsd_open(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, int type,
 		vfs_dq_init(inode);
 	}
 	*filp = dentry_open(dget(dentry), mntget(fhp->fh_export->ex_path.mnt),
-			    flags, cred);
+			    flags, current_cred());
 	if (IS_ERR(*filp))
 		host_err = PTR_ERR(*filp);
 	else


             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-02 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02 13:35 David Howells [this message]
     [not found] ` <20090702133532.28297.89635.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-02 13:59   ` [PATCH] NFSD: Don't hold unrefcounted creds over call to nfsd_setuser() Steve Dickson
2009-07-02 20:39   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-07-02 21:31     ` David Howells
2009-07-02 23:09       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-07-03 14:22         ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-07-03 14:41           ` David Howells
2009-07-03 15:47             ` J. Bruce Fields

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