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authorHimanshu Shukla <himanshu.sh@samsung.com>2016-11-23 11:59:19 +0530
committerCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2017-01-10 09:47:20 -0800
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SMACK: Free the i_security blob in inode using RCU
There is race condition issue while freeing the i_security blob in SMACK module. There is existing condition where i_security can be freed while inode_permission is called from path lookup on second CPU. There has been observed the page fault with such condition. VFS code and Selinux module takes care of this condition by freeing the inode and i_security field using RCU via call_rcu(). But in SMACK directly the i_secuirty blob is being freed. Use call_rcu() to fix this race condition issue. Signed-off-by: Himanshu Shukla <himanshu.sh@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Goel <vishal.goel@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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