From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds 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 Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- drivers/connector/cn_proc.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c b/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c index 354c1ff1715..c5afc98e267 100644 --- a/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c +++ b/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id) struct proc_event *ev; __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE]; struct timespec ts; + const struct cred *cred; if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1) return; @@ -115,14 +116,19 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id) ev->what = which_id; ev->event_data.id.process_pid = task->pid; ev->event_data.id.process_tgid = task->tgid; + rcu_read_lock(); + cred = __task_cred(task); if (which_id == PROC_EVENT_UID) { - ev->event_data.id.r.ruid = task->cred->uid; - ev->event_data.id.e.euid = task->cred->euid; + ev->event_data.id.r.ruid = cred->uid; + ev->event_data.id.e.euid = cred->euid; } else if (which_id == PROC_EVENT_GID) { - ev->event_data.id.r.rgid = task->cred->gid; - ev->event_data.id.e.egid = task->cred->egid; - } else + ev->event_data.id.r.rgid = cred->gid; + ev->event_data.id.e.egid = cred->egid; + } else { + rcu_read_unlock(); return; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu); ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */ put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns); -- cgit v1.2.3