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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-06-17 16:27:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-18 13:03:52 -0700 |
| commit | 3b34fc5880a2dcc7e5ed9837ef8d6bae051ab266 (patch) | |
| tree | 477b9a29135cc7b8815ce7ce19201bce371c56a1 /fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | |
| parent | 72a1de39f89325a834a8c70b2a0d8f71d919f640 (diff) | |
elf_core_dump: use rcu_read_lock() to access ->real_parent
In theory it is not safe to dereference ->parent/real_parent without
tasklist or rcu lock, we can race with re-parenting.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c index fdb66faa24f1..20fbeced472b 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c @@ -1387,8 +1387,10 @@ static void fill_prstatus(struct elf_prstatus *prstatus, prstatus->pr_info.si_signo = prstatus->pr_cursig = signr; prstatus->pr_sigpend = p->pending.signal.sig[0]; prstatus->pr_sighold = p->blocked.sig[0]; + rcu_read_lock(); + prstatus->pr_ppid = task_pid_vnr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)); + rcu_read_unlock(); prstatus->pr_pid = task_pid_vnr(p); - prstatus->pr_ppid = task_pid_vnr(p->real_parent); prstatus->pr_pgrp = task_pgrp_vnr(p); prstatus->pr_sid = task_session_vnr(p); if (thread_group_leader(p)) { @@ -1432,8 +1434,10 @@ static int fill_psinfo(struct elf_prpsinfo *psinfo, struct task_struct *p, psinfo->pr_psargs[i] = ' '; psinfo->pr_psargs[len] = 0; + rcu_read_lock(); + psinfo->pr_ppid = task_pid_vnr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)); + rcu_read_unlock(); psinfo->pr_pid = task_pid_vnr(p); - psinfo->pr_ppid = task_pid_vnr(p->real_parent); psinfo->pr_pgrp = task_pgrp_vnr(p); psinfo->pr_sid = task_session_vnr(p); |