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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2006-12-08 02:36:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-08 08:28:38 -0800
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[PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty locking
Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/acct.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/acct.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index dc12db8600e7..ca5619039367 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
u64 elapsed;
u64 run_time;
struct timespec uptime;
+ struct tty_struct *tty;
/*
* First check to see if there is enough free_space to continue
@@ -485,12 +486,8 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
#endif
mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
- /* FIXME: Whoever is responsible for current->signal locking needs
- to use the same locking all over the kernel and document it */
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- ac.ac_tty = current->signal->tty ?
- old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(current->signal->tty)) : 0;
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ tty = get_current_tty();
+ ac.ac_tty = tty ? old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty)) : 0;
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);