proc_fork_connector: a lockless ->real_parent usage is not safe
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:26:32 +0000 (18:26 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:26:32 +0000 (18:26 -0700)
proc_fork_connector() uses ->real_parent lockless.  This is not safe if
copy_process() was called with CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_PARENT, in this case
the parent != current can go away at any moment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c

index 3ee1fdb31ea7daac5a123d8e72252f86ab271426..e55814bc0d06f069dd5974e63c6656764975251c 100644 (file)
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ void proc_fork_connector(struct task_struct *task)
        struct proc_event *ev;
        __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
        struct timespec ts;
+       struct task_struct *parent;
 
        if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
                return;
@@ -67,8 +68,11 @@ void proc_fork_connector(struct task_struct *task)
        ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
        put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
        ev->what = PROC_EVENT_FORK;
-       ev->event_data.fork.parent_pid = task->real_parent->pid;
-       ev->event_data.fork.parent_tgid = task->real_parent->tgid;
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       parent = rcu_dereference(task->real_parent);
+       ev->event_data.fork.parent_pid = parent->pid;
+       ev->event_data.fork.parent_tgid = parent->tgid;
+       rcu_read_unlock();
        ev->event_data.fork.child_pid = task->pid;
        ev->event_data.fork.child_tgid = task->tgid;