linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] uml: Don't consult current to find the proc_mnt in mconsole

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Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:18:14 -0600
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Security Module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>,
        "Dmitry V . Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] uml: Don't consult current to find the proc_mnt in mconsole_proc


Inspection of the control flow reveals that mconsole_proc is either
called from mconsole_stop called from mc_work_proc or from
mc_work_proc directly.  The function mc_work_proc is dispatched to a
kernel thread with schedule_work.

All of the threads that run dispatched by schedule_work are in the
init pid namespace.

So make the code clearer and by using init_pid_ns instead of
task_active_pid_ns(current).

Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
index b80a1d616e4e..e8f5c81c2c6c 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ void mconsole_log(struct mc_request *req)
 
 void mconsole_proc(struct mc_request *req)
 {
-	struct vfsmount *mnt = task_active_pid_ns(current)->proc_mnt;
+	struct vfsmount *mnt = init_pid_ns.proc_mnt;
 	char *buf;
 	int len;
 	struct file *file;
-- 
2.25.0