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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-04-02 16:58:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:05:02 -0700
commit2ae448efc87df6d328f5835969076c7f9fce59c3 (patch)
treef110b43fa7c6b3c80f9b18a8e4fef728ed57f448 /kernel
parent6dda81f4384b94930826eded254d8c16f89a9248 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 029415d9f82..384f09caf2e 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/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);
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 1b3586fe753..6628abcc520 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/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;