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 --- fs/ioprio.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ioprio.c') diff --git a/fs/ioprio.c b/fs/ioprio.c index 5112554fd210..3569e0ad86a2 100644 --- a/fs/ioprio.c +++ b/fs/ioprio.c @@ -31,10 +31,16 @@ static int set_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *task, int ioprio) { int err; struct io_context *ioc; + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; - if (task->cred->uid != current_euid() && - task->cred->uid != current_uid() && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) + rcu_read_lock(); + tcred = __task_cred(task); + if (tcred->uid != cred->euid && + tcred->uid != cred->uid && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); return -EPERM; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); err = security_task_setioprio(task, ioprio); if (err) @@ -131,7 +137,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_set(int which, int who, int ioprio) break; do_each_thread(g, p) { - if (p->cred->uid != who) + if (__task_cred(p)->uid != who) continue; ret = set_task_ioprio(p, ioprio); if (ret) @@ -224,7 +230,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_get(int which, int who) break; do_each_thread(g, p) { - if (p->cred->uid != user->uid) + if (__task_cred(p)->uid != user->uid) continue; tmpio = get_task_ioprio(p); if (tmpio < 0) -- cgit v1.2.1