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pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()

sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe.  We can
add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can
be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Oleg Nesterov 16 years ago
parent
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 1
      kernel/exit.c
  2. 2 0
      kernel/pid.c

+ 1 - 1
kernel/exit.c

@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(wait4, pid_t, upid, int __user *, stat_addr,
 		pid = find_get_pid(-upid);
 	} else if (upid == 0) {
 		type = PIDTYPE_PGID;
-		pid = get_pid(task_pgrp(current));
+		pid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID);
 	} else /* upid > 0 */ {
 		type = PIDTYPE_PID;
 		pid = find_get_pid(upid);

+ 2 - 0
kernel/pid.c

@@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type)
 {
 	struct pid *pid;
 	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (type != PIDTYPE_PID)
+		task = task->group_leader;
 	pid = get_pid(task->pids[type].pid);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return pid;