From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'security/selinux') diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c index 10715d1..c863036 100644 --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c @@ -95,13 +95,18 @@ extern void selnl_notify_setenforce(int val); static int task_has_security(struct task_struct *tsk, u32 perms) { - struct task_security_struct *tsec; - - tsec = tsk->cred->security; + const struct task_security_struct *tsec; + u32 sid = 0; + + rcu_read_lock(); + tsec = __task_cred(tsk)->security; + if (tsec) + sid = tsec->sid; + rcu_read_unlock(); if (!tsec) return -EACCES; - return avc_has_perm(tsec->sid, SECINITSID_SECURITY, + return avc_has_perm(sid, SECINITSID_SECURITY, SECCLASS_SECURITY, perms, NULL); } -- cgit v1.1