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/sys.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index c4d6b59553e..ccc9eb736d3 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -112,14 +112,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cad_pid); void (*pm_power_off_prepare)(void); +/* + * set the priority of a task + * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock + */ static int set_one_prio(struct task_struct *p, int niceval, int error) { - uid_t euid = current_euid(); + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *pcred = __task_cred(p); int no_nice; - if (p->cred->uid != euid && - p->cred->euid != euid && - !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { + if (pcred->uid != cred->euid && + pcred->euid != cred->euid && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { error = -EPERM; goto out; } -- cgit