linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Bsd_acct: plain current->real

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:48:29 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always
 safe

This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not
safe on debug kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be
unmapped - RCU protection is required.

Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with
task_tgid_xxx call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---
 kernel/acct.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index 521dfa5..7ff5339 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -482,7 +482,9 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
 #endif
 #if ACCT_VERSION==3
 	ac.ac_pid = current->tgid;
-	ac.ac_ppid = current->real_parent->tgid;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	ac.ac_ppid = rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)->tgid;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 #endif
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-- 
1.5.3.4

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