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 <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c
index 6d1ed07..2dc06ab 100644
--- a/kernel/tsacct.c
+++ b/kernel/tsacct.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
*/
void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
+ const struct cred *tcred;
struct timespec uptime, ts;
u64 ac_etime;
@@ -53,10 +54,11 @@
stats->ac_flag |= AXSIG;
stats->ac_nice = task_nice(tsk);
stats->ac_sched = tsk->policy;
- stats->ac_uid = tsk->cred->uid;
- stats->ac_gid = tsk->cred->gid;
stats->ac_pid = tsk->pid;
rcu_read_lock();
+ tcred = __task_cred(tsk);
+ stats->ac_uid = tcred->uid;
+ stats->ac_gid = tcred->gid;
stats->ac_ppid = pid_alive(tsk) ?
rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent)->tgid : 0;
rcu_read_unlock();