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CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]

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Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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David Howells
2009-09-02 09:13:40 +01:00
committed by James Morris
parent ed6d76e4c3
commit e0e817392b
11 changed files with 346 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -653,6 +653,21 @@ config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
performance, say N.
config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
bool "Debug credential management"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
struct.
Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
If unsure, say N.
#
# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config