Re: [PATCH] TOMOYO: Protect find_task_by_vpid() with RCU.

[James Morris]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> I see. Explanation is in commit d4581a239a40319205762b76c01eb6363f277efa
> "sys: Fix missing rcu protection for __task_cred() access".
> Thus, I think below comment should be sufficient.
> --------------------
> [PATCH] TOMOYO: Protect find_task_by_vpid() with RCU.
> 
> Holding tasklist_lock is no longer sufficient for find_task_by_vpid().
> Explicit rcu_read_lock() is required.

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

The audit code still looks like it needs to be updated.

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James Morris
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