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| author | Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com> | 2012-02-02 11:34:09 +1030 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-02-02 12:55:17 -0800 |
| commit | 8cdb878dcb359fd1137e9abdee9322f5e9bcfdf8 (patch) | |
| tree | 146afc01f3c1d7cbc944328484d077032bc53bfd /fs | |
| parent | 24b36da33c64368775f4ef9386d44dce1d2bc8cf (diff) | |
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Fix race in process_vm_rw_core
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/
for details).
This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.
In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/base.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index d9512bd03e6c..d4548dd49b02 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -198,26 +198,6 @@ static int proc_root_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path) return result; } -static struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) -{ - struct mm_struct *mm; - int err; - - err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); - if (err) - return ERR_PTR(err); - - mm = get_task_mm(task); - if (mm && mm != current->mm && - !ptrace_may_access(task, mode)) { - mmput(mm); - mm = ERR_PTR(-EACCES); - } - mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); - - return mm; -} - struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task) { return mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); |