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CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds

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Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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David Howells
2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
committed by James Morris
parent 86a264abe5
commit c69e8d9c01
28 changed files with 353 additions and 202 deletions
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@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_move_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long nr_pages,
const int __user *nodes,
int __user *status, int flags)
{
struct cred *cred, *tcred;
const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
struct task_struct *task;
struct mm_struct *mm;
int err;
@@ -1076,14 +1076,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_move_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long nr_pages,
* capabilities, superuser privileges or the same
* userid as the target process.
*/
cred = current->cred;
tcred = task->cred;
rcu_read_lock();
tcred = __task_cred(task);
if (cred->euid != tcred->suid && cred->euid != tcred->uid &&
cred->uid != tcred->suid && cred->uid != tcred->uid &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
err = -EPERM;
goto out;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
err = security_task_movememory(task);
if (err)