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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@goop.org, jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: Gaah: selinux_socket_unix_stream_connect oops
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:32:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimZnqQ1xmQC2Bp3vj60uU_vPEwWi2n+G9MZ4Uo9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110105.142540.245404254.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:25 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> More seriously, we can get at the struct socket via sk->sk_socket in
> the SMACK code.  sk->sk_socket, unlike socket->sk, has it's state
> change to NULL (via sock_orphen()) protected by unix_state_lock(),
> which we hold for "other" in this unix connect code path.
>
> Therefore I propose we fix this like so:

Looks fine to me.

And no, I don't think that selinux is all the world, but selinux is
the _common_ case, and with the cross-pointers, the only difference
can be whether you need to dereference the pointer or not - so
choosing the "extra dereference" case for the common case seems silly.

The fact that this also fixes locking is obviously an even better
reason to do it, though ;)

                      Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-05 16:27 Gaah: selinux_socket_unix_stream_connect oops Linus Torvalds
2011-01-05 22:25 ` David Miller
2011-01-05 23:32   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-01-05 23:38     ` David Miller

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