From 43e13cc107cf6cd3c15fbe1cef849435c2223d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:16 -0700 Subject: cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation 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 Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: David Howells Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 910a071..3281493 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -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)) -- cgit v1.1