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 <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/fs/ioprio.c b/fs/ioprio.c
index 5112554..3569e0a 100644
--- a/fs/ioprio.c
+++ b/fs/ioprio.c
@@ -31,10 +31,16 @@
{
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 @@
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 @@
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)
