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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2011-11-16 21:52:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-04-07 16:55:52 -0700 |
| commit | 0093ccb68f3753c0ba4d74c89d7e0f444b8d6123 (patch) | |
| tree | a6fc0ea2a6dfc338fa8fc7126005f40109ef8dce /kernel/user_namespace.c | |
| parent | c4a4d603796c727b9555867571f89483be9c565e (diff) | |
cred: Refcount the user_ns pointed to by the cred.
struct user_struct will shortly loose it's user_ns reference
so make the cred user_ns reference a proper reference complete
with reference counting.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user_namespace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user_namespace.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c index f084083a0fd3..58bb8781a778 100644 --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *user_ns_cachep __read_mostly; */ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new) { - struct user_namespace *ns; + struct user_namespace *ns, *parent_ns = new->user_ns; struct user_struct *root_user; int n; @@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new) #endif /* tgcred will be cleared in our caller bc CLONE_THREAD won't be set */ - /* root_user holds a reference to ns, our reference can be dropped */ - put_user_ns(ns); + /* Leave the reference to our user_ns with the new cred */ + new->user_ns = ns; + + put_user_ns(parent_ns); return 0; } |