From 2dd8ad81e31d0d36a5d448329c646ab43eb17788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:28:51 -0700 Subject: mm: use mm->exe_file instead of first VM_EXECUTABLE vma->vm_file Some security modules and oprofile still uses VM_EXECUTABLE for retrieving a task's executable file. After this patch they will use mm->exe_file directly. mm->exe_file is protected with mm->mmap_sem, so locking stays the same. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Chris Metcalf [arch/tile] Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa [tomoyo] Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Carsten Otte Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Eric Paris Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: James Morris Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Kentaro Takeda Cc: Matt Helsley Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Suresh Siddha Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/auditsc.c | 13 ++----------- kernel/fork.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 29e090c..f4a7756 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1151,7 +1151,6 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk) const struct cred *cred; char name[sizeof(tsk->comm)]; struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm; - struct vm_area_struct *vma; char *tty; if (!ab) @@ -1191,16 +1190,8 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk) if (mm) { down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - vma = mm->mmap; - while (vma) { - if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) && - vma->vm_file) { - audit_log_d_path(ab, " exe=", - &vma->vm_file->f_path); - break; - } - vma = vma->vm_next; - } + if (mm->exe_file) + audit_log_d_path(ab, " exe=", &mm->exe_file->f_path); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } audit_log_task_context(ab); diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a2b1efc..a57a993 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -656,8 +656,7 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct file *exe_file; - /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of - * VM_EXECUTABLE vmas */ + /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of exe_file */ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); exe_file = mm->exe_file; if (exe_file) -- cgit v1.1