Re: [PATCH] cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock

[Eric W. Biederman]

Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit "userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use
> kuid and kgid has modified the accessors in wait_task_continued() and
> wait_task_stopped() to use __task_cred() instead of task_uid().
>
> __task_cred() assumes that we're inside a rcu read lock, which is untrue
> for these two functions.
>
> Modify it to use task_uid() instead.

Thanks applied.

Eric


> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/exit.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index 6818cbb..7e54635 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static int wait_task_stopped(struct wait_opts *wo,
>  	if (!unlikely(wo->wo_flags & WNOWAIT))
>  		*p_code = 0;
>  
> -	uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
> +	uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
>  unlock_sig:
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
>  	if (!exit_code)
> @@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
>  	}
>  	if (!unlikely(wo->wo_flags & WNOWAIT))
>  		p->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED;
> -	uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
> +	uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
>  
>  	pid = task_pid_vnr(p);
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