linux-kernel - [PATCH] devcgroup: fix race against rmdir()

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <48B2174E.9060608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:22:06 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] devcgroup: fix race against rmdir()

During the use of a dev_cgroup, we should guarantee the corresponding
cgroup won't be deleted (i.e. via rmdir). This can be done through
css_get(&dev_cgroup->css), but here we can just get and use the
dev_cgroup under rcu_read_lock.

And also remove checking NULL dev_cgroup, it won't be NULL since a task
always belongs to a cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
---
 security/device_cgroup.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index 7bd296c..46f2397 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -508,12 +508,11 @@ int devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 		return 0;
 	if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))
 		return 0;
-	dev_cgroup = css_to_devcgroup(task_subsys_state(current,
-				devices_subsys_id));
-	if (!dev_cgroup)
-		return 0;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);
+
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(wh, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) {
 		if (wh->type & DEV_ALL)
 			goto acc_check;
@@ -533,6 +532,7 @@ acc_check:
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return 0;
 	}
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return -EPERM;
@@ -543,12 +543,10 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
 	struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup;
 	struct dev_whitelist_item *wh;
 
-	dev_cgroup = css_to_devcgroup(task_subsys_state(current,
-				devices_subsys_id));
-	if (!dev_cgroup)
-		return 0;
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);
+
 	list_for_each_entry(wh, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) {
 		if (wh->type & DEV_ALL)
 			goto acc_check;
@@ -566,6 +564,8 @@ acc_check:
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return 0;
 	}
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
+
 	return -EPERM;
 }
-- 
1.5.4.rc3

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/