cred: Refcount the user_ns pointed to by the cred.
struct user_struct will shortly loose it's user_ns reference
so make the cred user_ns reference a proper reference complete
with reference counting.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index f084083..58bb878 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
*/
int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
{
- struct user_namespace *ns;
+ struct user_namespace *ns, *parent_ns = new->user_ns;
struct user_struct *root_user;
int n;
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@
#endif
/* tgcred will be cleared in our caller bc CLONE_THREAD won't be set */
- /* root_user holds a reference to ns, our reference can be dropped */
- put_user_ns(ns);
+ /* Leave the reference to our user_ns with the new cred */
+ new->user_ns = ns;
+
+ put_user_ns(parent_ns);
return 0;
}
