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 --- kernel/futex_compat.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/futex_compat.c') diff --git a/kernel/futex_compat.c b/kernel/futex_compat.c index 2c3fd5ed34f5..d607a5b9ee29 100644 --- a/kernel/futex_compat.c +++ b/kernel/futex_compat.c @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __user *head_ptr, { struct compat_robust_list_head __user *head; unsigned long ret; - uid_t euid = current_euid(); + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *pcred; if (!futex_cmpxchg_enabled) return -ENOSYS; @@ -151,8 +151,9 @@ compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __user *head_ptr, if (!p) goto err_unlock; ret = -EPERM; - if (euid != p->cred->euid && - euid != p->cred->uid && + pcred = __task_cred(p); + if (cred->euid != pcred->euid && + cred->euid != pcred->uid && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) goto err_unlock; head = p->compat_robust_list; -- cgit v1.2.3