From 8cdb878dcb359fd1137e9abdee9322f5e9bcfdf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Yeoh Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:34:09 +1030 Subject: Fix race in process_vm_rw_core This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/process_vm_access.c | 23 +++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c index e920aa3ce104..c20ff48994c2 100644 --- a/mm/process_vm_access.c +++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c @@ -298,23 +298,18 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, const struct iovec *lvec, goto free_proc_pages; } - task_lock(task); - if (__ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH)) { - task_unlock(task); - rc = -EPERM; - goto put_task_struct; - } - mm = task->mm; - - if (!mm || (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { - task_unlock(task); - rc = -EINVAL; + mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH); + if (!mm || IS_ERR(mm)) { + rc = IS_ERR(mm) ? PTR_ERR(mm) : -ESRCH; + /* + * Explicitly map EACCES to EPERM as EPERM is a more a + * appropriate error code for process_vw_readv/writev + */ + if (rc == -EACCES) + rc = -EPERM; goto put_task_struct; } - atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users); - task_unlock(task); - for (i = 0; i < riovcnt && iov_l_curr_idx < liovcnt; i++) { rc = process_vm_rw_single_vec( (unsigned long)rvec[i].iov_base, rvec[i].iov_len, -- cgit v1.2.3