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bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safe

This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug
kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is
required.

Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx
call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov 17 년 전
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1개의 변경된 파일3개의 추가작업 그리고 1개의 파일을 삭제
  1. 3 1
      kernel/acct.c

+ 3 - 1
kernel/acct.c

@@ -482,7 +482,9 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
 #endif
 #if ACCT_VERSION==3
 	ac.ac_pid = current->tgid;
-	ac.ac_ppid = current->real_parent->tgid;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	ac.ac_ppid = rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)->tgid;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 #endif
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);