[PATCH] audit/accounting: tty locking

[Alan Cox]

Fairly basic stuff .. make sure the name we are encoding doesn't vanish
under us.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/acct.c linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/acct.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/acct.c	2006-09-01 13:39:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/acct.c	2006-09-01 13:55:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -483,10 +483,10 @@
 	ac.ac_ppid = current->parent->tgid;
 #endif
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);	/* pin current->signal */
+	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	ac.ac_tty = current->signal->tty ?
 		old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(current->signal->tty)) : 0;
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_utime)));
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/auditsc.c linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/auditsc.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/auditsc.c	2006-09-01 13:39:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/kernel/auditsc.c	2006-09-01 13:55:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@
 		audit_log_format(ab, " success=%s exit=%ld", 
 				 (context->return_valid==AUDITSC_SUCCESS)?"yes":"no",
 				 context->return_code);
+				 
+	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	if (tsk->signal && tsk->signal->tty && tsk->signal->tty->name)
 		tty = tsk->signal->tty->name;
 	else
@@ -787,6 +789,9 @@
 		  context->gid,
 		  context->euid, context->suid, context->fsuid,
 		  context->egid, context->sgid, context->fsgid, tty);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+	
 	audit_log_task_info(ab, tsk);
 	if (context->filterkey) {
 		audit_log_format(ab, " key=");

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