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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 1814e68e4de3..d09692b40376 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -218,13 +218,13 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, int override_rlimi struct user_struct *user; /* - * We won't get problems with the target's UID changing under us - * because changing it requires RCU be used, and if t != current, the - * caller must be holding the RCU readlock (by way of a spinlock) and - * we use RCU protection here + * Protect access to @t credentials. This can go away when all + * callers hold rcu read lock. */ + rcu_read_lock(); user = get_uid(__task_cred(t)->user); atomic_inc(&user->sigpending); + rcu_read_unlock(); if (override_rlimit || atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <= @@ -1179,11 +1179,12 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid, int ret = -EINVAL; struct task_struct *p; const struct cred *pcred; + unsigned long flags; if (!valid_signal(sig)) return ret; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); if (!p) { ret = -ESRCH; @@ -1199,14 +1200,16 @@ int kill_pid_info_as_uid(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid, ret = security_task_kill(p, info, sig, secid); if (ret) goto out_unlock; - if (sig && p->sighand) { - unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags); - ret = __send_signal(sig, info, p, 1, 0); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags); + + if (sig) { + if (lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)) { + ret = __send_signal(sig, info, p, 1, 0); + unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags); + } else + ret = -ESRCH; } out_unlock: - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kill_pid_info_as_uid); |