From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:54:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k40as9jw.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337290299-11057-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> (Sasha Levin's message of "Thu, 17 May 2012 23:31:39 +0200")
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> writes:
> Commit "userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use
> kuid and kgid has modified the accessors in wait_task_continued() and
> wait_task_stopped() to use __task_cred() instead of task_uid().
>
> __task_cred() assumes that we're inside a rcu read lock, which is untrue
> for these two functions.
>
> Modify it to use task_uid() instead.
Thanks applied.
Eric
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> ---
> kernel/exit.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index 6818cbb..7e54635 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static int wait_task_stopped(struct wait_opts *wo,
> if (!unlikely(wo->wo_flags & WNOWAIT))
> *p_code = 0;
>
> - uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
> + uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
> unlock_sig:
> spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
> if (!exit_code)
> @@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
> }
> if (!unlikely(wo->wo_flags & WNOWAIT))
> p->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED;
> - uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
> + uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
> spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
>
> pid = task_pid_vnr(p);
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2012-05-17 21:31 [PATCH] cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock Sasha Levin
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