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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-10 11:12:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-10 11:13:53 -0800 |
| commit | 7483948fdd31a8642ef0288aab6f368b98d53c29 (patch) | |
| tree | 031020a5553701d2aae8dddb0fa509aa65854eb1 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 22a416c4e0f2179b57028e084ac0ed2c110333bd (diff) | |
| parent | fe250923bbbbcbccc9aa7b84d05ee7a060450534 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'usb-3.3-rc3' into usb-next
This is done to resolve a merge conflict with:
drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c
and to better handle future patches for this driver as it is under
active development at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 051f090d40c1..1b2ef3c23ae4 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -647,6 +647,26 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm); +struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) +{ + struct mm_struct *mm; + int err; + + err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + if (err) + return ERR_PTR(err); + + mm = get_task_mm(task); + if (mm && mm != current->mm && + !ptrace_may_access(task, mode)) { + mmput(mm); + mm = ERR_PTR(-EACCES); + } + mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); + + return mm; +} + /* Please note the differences between mmput and mm_release. * mmput is called whenever we stop holding onto a mm_struct, * error success whatever. |
