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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:22:23 -0400
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>, oleg@...hat.com,
        luto@...capital.net, linux-audit@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] introduce get_task_exe_file and use it to fix audit_exe_compare

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com> wrote:
>> audit_exe_compare directly accesses mm->exe_file without making sure the
>> object is stable. Fixing it using current primitives results in
>> partially duplicating what proc_exe_link is doing.
>>
>> As such, introduce a trivial helper which can be used in both places and
>> fix the func.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> * removed an unused 'out' label which crept in
>>
>> Mateusz Guzik (2):
>>   mm: introduce get_task_exe_file
>>   audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare
>>
>>  fs/proc/base.c       |  7 +------
>>  include/linux/mm.h   |  1 +
>>  kernel/audit_watch.c |  8 +++++---
>>  kernel/fork.c        | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks for doing this.
>
> Both patches look fine to me, does anyone in the mm area have any
> objections?  If not, I'll merge these into the audit tree and mark
> them for stable.

I just merged these patches into audit#stable-4.8 and have a kernel
building now, as soon as it finishes I'll do some quick sanity tests
and send them off to Linus.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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