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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
commitbc47ab0241c7c86da4f5e5f82fbca7d45387c18d (patch)
treeb9c33ae8b6de43e44cc5fcbaa3e4a15f18a5ed42 /fs/proc/base.c
parent37f9ef553bed630957e025504cdcbc76f5de49d5 (diff)
parent8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/base.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index fb45615943c..1539e630c47 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_pident_instantiate(struct inode *dir,
const struct pid_entry *p = ptr;
struct inode *inode;
struct proc_inode *ei;
- struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dir->i_sb, task);
if (!inode)
@@ -2128,9 +2128,15 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
if (copy_from_user(page, buf, count))
goto out_free;
+ /* Guard against adverse ptrace interaction */
+ length = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
+ if (length < 0)
+ goto out_free;
+
length = security_setprocattr(task,
(char*)file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
(void*)page, count);
+ mutex_unlock(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
out_free:
free_page((unsigned long) page);
out: