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Fix race in process_vm_rw_core

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This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/

for details).

This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.

In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christopher Yeoh
2012-02-02 11:34:09 +10:30
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 24b36da33c
commit 8cdb878dcb
4 changed files with 35 additions and 34 deletions
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fs/proc/base.c
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@ -198,26 +198,6 @@ static int proc_root_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path)
return result;
}
static struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
{
struct mm_struct *mm;
int err;
err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
if (err)
return ERR_PTR(err);
mm = get_task_mm(task);
if (mm && mm != current->mm &&
!ptrace_may_access(task, mode)) {
mmput(mm);
mm = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
}
mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
return mm;
}
struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
{
return mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);