linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0901082344470.15751@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:46:03 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, David Howells wrote:

> Fix commit_creds()'s handling of a process that has no mm (such as one that is
> calling or has called daemonize()).  commit_creds() should check to see if
> task->mm is not NULL before calling set_dumpable() on it.

This looks correct in its own right, and is available for Linus to pull 
per below, but I'd also like to know that Jiri's problem is verified to be 
fixed.


The following changes since commit 9e42d0cf5020aaf217433cad1a224745241d212a:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/sparc-2.6

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 for-linus

David Howells (1):
      CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm

 kernel/cred.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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