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| author | Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> | 2010-12-29 21:55:28 +0800 |
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| committer | AK <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2011-02-06 11:03:48 -0800 |
| commit | 55eb2febc4ec26d4ecde0964af63e4f152d353bf (patch) | |
| tree | 95469d20c2dced71e16d574df03b6d2e41b89c5c /kernel | |
| parent | 01dda54376c56e99e475193d6c112f05476e5280 (diff) | |
fix freeing user_struct in user cache
commit 4ef9e11d6867f88951e30db910fa015300e31871 upstream.
When racing on adding into user cache, the new allocated from mm slab
is freed without putting user namespace.
Since the user namespace is already operated by getting, putting has
to be issued.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 7e72614b736d..8ce395f74d47 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid) spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock); up = uid_hash_find(uid, hashent); if (up) { + put_user_ns(ns); key_put(new->uid_keyring); key_put(new->session_keyring); kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new); |