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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-01-08 11:18:31 +0000
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-01-08 23:13:56 +1100
commitb9456371a73871d001e67b5f4eac118c2c278e1c (patch)
tree1bfe87d83dc3d7f34b9d7edf9a9ef3a693afcf29 /kernel/cred.c
parent9e42d0cf5020aaf217433cad1a224745241d212a (diff)
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CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm
Fix commit_creds()'s handling of a process that has no mm (such as one that is calling or has called daemonize()). commit_creds() should check to see if task->mm is not NULL before calling set_dumpable() on it. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cred.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cred.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index ff7bc07..480a61a 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new)
old->fsuid != new->fsuid ||
old->fsgid != new->fsgid ||
!cap_issubset(new->cap_permitted, old->cap_permitted)) {
- set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
+ if (task->mm)
+ set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
task->pdeath_signal = 0;
smp_wmb();
}
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