linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 05/15] tty: audit: Take siglock directly

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Message-Id: <1452408939-19380-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Sat,  9 Jan 2016 22:55:29 -0800
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 05/15] tty: audit: Take siglock directly

lock_task_sighand() is for situations where the struct task_struct*
may disappear while trying to deref the sighand; this never applies
to 'current'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_audit.c | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c b/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c
index 9effa81..5f65653 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_audit.c
@@ -180,22 +180,19 @@ void tty_audit_tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch)
 int tty_audit_push_current(void)
 {
 	struct tty_audit_buf *buf = ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
-	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (!lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags))
-		return -ESRCH;
-
-	if (tsk->signal->audit_tty) {
-		buf = tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
+	if (current->signal->audit_tty) {
+		buf = current->signal->tty_audit_buf;
 		if (buf)
 			atomic_inc(&buf->count);
 	}
-	unlock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->sighand->siglock, flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * Return 0 when signal->audit_tty set
-	 * but tsk->signal->tty_audit_buf == NULL.
+	 * but current->signal->tty_audit_buf == NULL.
 	 */
 	if (!buf || IS_ERR(buf))
 		return PTR_ERR(buf);
-- 
2.7.0