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Commit 6b335d9c authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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[PATCH] close race in unshare_files() 



updating current->files requires task_lock

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 42faad99

kernel/fork.c

+9 −11
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -805,12 +805,6 @@ static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) 
		goto out;

	}



	/*

	 * Note: we may be using current for both targets (See exec.c)

	 * This works because we cache current->files (old) as oldf. Don't

	 * break this.

	 */

	tsk->files = NULL;

	newf = dup_fd(oldf, &error);

	if (!newf)

		goto out;
@@ -855,7 +849,8 @@ static int copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) 
int unshare_files(void)

{

	struct files_struct *files  = current->files;

	int rc;

	struct files_struct *newf;

	int error = 0;



	BUG_ON(!files);
@@ -866,10 +861,13 @@ int unshare_files(void) 
		atomic_inc(&files->count);

		return 0;

	}

	rc = copy_files(0, current);

	if(rc)

		current->files = files;

	return rc;

	newf = dup_fd(files, &error);

	if (newf) {

		task_lock(current);

		current->files = newf;

		task_unlock(current);

	}

	return error;

}



EXPORT_SYMBOL(unshare_files);