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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Evan McNabb <emcnabb@redhat.com>,
	Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock()
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:33:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131214163317.GB21675@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131214163256.GA21675@redhat.com>

selinux_setprocattr() does ptrace_parent(p) under task_lock(p),
but task_struct->alloc_lock doesn't pin ->parent or ->ptrace,
this looks confusing and triggers the "suspicious RCU usage"
warning because ptrace_parent() does rcu_dereference_check().

And in theory this is wrong, spin_lock()->preempt_disable()
doesn't necessarily imply rcu_read_lock() we need to access
the ->parent.

Reported-by: Evan McNabb <emcnabb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 security/selinux/hooks.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -5503,11 +5503,11 @@ static int selinux_setprocattr(struct ta
 		/* Check for ptracing, and update the task SID if ok.
 		   Otherwise, leave SID unchanged and fail. */
 		ptsid = 0;
-		task_lock(p);
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		tracer = ptrace_parent(p);
 		if (tracer)
 			ptsid = task_sid(tracer);
-		task_unlock(p);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		if (tracer) {
 			error = avc_has_perm(ptsid, sid, SECCLASS_PROCESS,


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-14 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 16:59 [PATCH] selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock() Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-05 21:53 ` Paul Moore
2013-12-06 14:47   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-14 15:16     ` Paul Moore
2013-12-14 16:32       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-14 16:33         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-12-16 21:12           ` [PATCH v2] " Paul Moore
2013-12-16 21:11         ` [PATCH] " Paul Moore

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