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Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:24:53 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	". James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Was: deferring __fput()

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 06:45:39PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Forgot to mention...
> 
> And I still think that task_work_add() should not succeed unconditionally,
> it synchronize with exit_task_work(). Otherwise keyctl_session_to_parent()
> is broken.

Hmm...  Look: if nothing else, we have
        /* the parent mustn't be init and mustn't be a kernel thread */
        if (parent->pid <= 1 || !parent->mm)
                goto unlock;
in the caller.  OTOH, on the exit side we have exit_mm() done first.  And
that will have ->mm set to NULL.  So we are closing a very narrow race to start
with.  So why not do the following and be done with that?

diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 0291b3f..f1b59ae 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1486,6 +1486,7 @@ long keyctl_session_to_parent(void)
 	oldwork = NULL;
 	parent = me->real_parent;
 
+	task_lock(parent);
 	/* the parent mustn't be init and mustn't be a kernel thread */
 	if (parent->pid <= 1 || !parent->mm)
 		goto unlock;
@@ -1529,6 +1530,7 @@ long keyctl_session_to_parent(void)
 	if (!ret)
 		newwork = NULL;
 unlock:
+	task_unlock(parent);
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (oldwork)
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