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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2010-02-11 09:43:20 +0900
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-02-15 09:00:21 +1100
commitec8e6a4e062e2edebef91e930c20572c9f4c0dda (patch)
tree1c48fb2aa2220b3bdc138e0fb33e1ac632d0dffe /security
parent76bb0895d038be7bcdb6ccfcd2dd7deb30371d6b (diff)
downloadlinux-ec8e6a4e062e2edebef91e930c20572c9f4c0dda.tar.gz
TOMOYO: Add refcounter on domain structure.
Add refcounter to "struct tomoyo_domain_info" since garbage collector needs to
determine whether this struct is referred by "struct cred"->security or not.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/tomoyo/common.h5
-rw-r--r--security/tomoyo/domain.c2
-rw-r--r--security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c37
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.h b/security/tomoyo/common.h
index f6aff59b0885..521b4b5addaf 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/common.h
+++ b/security/tomoyo/common.h
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ struct tomoyo_acl_info {
  *      name of the domain to be created was too long or it could not allocate
  *      memory. If set to true, more than one process continued execve()
  *      without domain transition.
+ *  (9) "users" is an atomic_t that holds how many "struct cred"->security
+ *      are referring this "struct tomoyo_domain_info". If is_deleted == true
+ *      and users == 0, this struct will be kfree()d upon next garbage
+ *      collection.
  *
  * A domain's lifecycle is an analogy of files on / directory.
  * Multiple domains with the same domainname cannot be created (as with
@@ -252,6 +256,7 @@ struct tomoyo_domain_info {
 	bool quota_warned; /* Quota warnning flag.   */
 	bool ignore_global_allow_read; /* Ignore "allow_read" flag. */
 	bool transition_failed; /* Domain transition failed flag. */
+	atomic_t users; /* Number of referring credentials. */
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/domain.c b/security/tomoyo/domain.c
index d60b8a61b0c8..6f74b30d6bb1 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/domain.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/domain.c
@@ -817,6 +817,8 @@ int tomoyo_find_next_domain(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
  out:
 	if (!domain)
 		domain = old_domain;
+	/* Update reference count on "struct tomoyo_domain_info". */
+	atomic_inc(&domain->users);
 	bprm->cred->security = domain;
 	kfree(real_program_name);
 	kfree(symlink_program_name);
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
index 8a0988dade79..87e82bfeac2f 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
@@ -21,21 +21,23 @@ static int tomoyo_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *new, gfp_t gfp)
 static int tomoyo_cred_prepare(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 			       gfp_t gfp)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Since "struct tomoyo_domain_info *" is a sharable pointer,
-	 * we don't need to duplicate.
-	 */
-	new->security = old->security;
+	struct tomoyo_domain_info *domain = old->security;
+	new->security = domain;
+	if (domain)
+		atomic_inc(&domain->users);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void tomoyo_cred_transfer(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Since "struct tomoyo_domain_info *" is a sharable pointer,
-	 * we don't need to duplicate.
-	 */
-	new->security = old->security;
+	tomoyo_cred_prepare(new, old, 0);
+}
+
+static void tomoyo_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
+{
+	struct tomoyo_domain_info *domain = cred->security;
+	if (domain)
+		atomic_dec(&domain->users);
 }
 
 static int tomoyo_bprm_set_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
@@ -59,6 +61,14 @@ static int tomoyo_bprm_set_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	if (!tomoyo_policy_loaded)
 		tomoyo_load_policy(bprm->filename);
 	/*
+	 * Release reference to "struct tomoyo_domain_info" stored inside
+	 * "bprm->cred->security". New reference to "struct tomoyo_domain_info"
+	 * stored inside "bprm->cred->security" will be acquired later inside
+	 * tomoyo_find_next_domain().
+	 */
+	atomic_dec(&((struct tomoyo_domain_info *)
+		     bprm->cred->security)->users);
+	/*
 	 * Tell tomoyo_bprm_check_security() is called for the first time of an
 	 * execve operation.
 	 */
@@ -75,12 +85,6 @@ static int tomoyo_bprm_check_security(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	 * using current domain.
 	 */
 	if (!domain) {
-		/*
-		 * We will need to protect whole execve() operation when GC
-		 * starts kfree()ing "struct tomoyo_domain_info" because
-		 * bprm->cred->security points to "struct tomoyo_domain_info"
-		 * but "struct tomoyo_domain_info" does not have a refcounter.
-		 */
 		const int idx = tomoyo_read_lock();
 		const int err = tomoyo_find_next_domain(bprm);
 		tomoyo_read_unlock(idx);
@@ -265,6 +269,7 @@ static struct security_operations tomoyo_security_ops = {
 	.cred_alloc_blank    = tomoyo_cred_alloc_blank,
 	.cred_prepare        = tomoyo_cred_prepare,
 	.cred_transfer	     = tomoyo_cred_transfer,
+	.cred_free           = tomoyo_cred_free,
 	.bprm_set_creds      = tomoyo_bprm_set_creds,
 	.bprm_check_security = tomoyo_bprm_check_security,
 	.file_fcntl          = tomoyo_file_fcntl,