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cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation

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Commit 8f92054e7ca1 ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner
comment"):

    add the following validation condition:

        task->exit_state >= 0

    to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore
    unable to change its own credentials.

OK, but afaics currently this can only help wait_task_zombie() which calls
__task_cred() without rcu lock.

Remove this validation and change wait_task_zombie() to use task_uid()
instead.  This means we do rcu_read_lock() only to shut up the lockdep,
but we already do the same in, say, wait_task_stopped().

task_is_dead() should die, task->exit_state != 0 means that this task has
passed exit_notify(), only do_wait-like code paths should use this.

Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already
acquired buggy users in drivers/staging.  The fix already exists.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2012-05-31 16:26:16 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9b3c98cd66
commit 43e13cc107
2 changed files with 4 additions and 8 deletions
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include/linux/cred.h
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@ -277,17 +277,13 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
* @task: The task to query
*
* Access the objective credentials of a task. The caller must hold the RCU
* readlock or the task must be dead and unable to change its own credentials.
* readlock.
*
* The result of this function should not be passed directly to get_cred();
* rather get_task_cred() should be used instead.
*/
#define __task_cred(task) \
({ \
const struct task_struct *__t = (task); \
rcu_dereference_check(__t->real_cred, \
task_is_dead(__t)); \
})
#define __task_cred(task) \
rcu_dereference((task)->real_cred)
/**
* get_current_cred - Get the current task's subjective credentials

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kernel/exit.c
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@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
unsigned long state;
int retval, status, traced;
pid_t pid = task_pid_vnr(p);
uid_t uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
uid_t uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
struct siginfo __user *infop;
if (!likely(wo->wo_flags & WEXITED))