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CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds

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Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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David Howells
2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
committed by James Morris
parent 86a264abe5
commit c69e8d9c01
28 changed files with 353 additions and 202 deletions
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@@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
task_lock(p);
printk(KERN_INFO "[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3d %3d %s\n",
p->pid, p->cred->uid, p->tgid, p->mm->total_vm,
get_mm_rss(p->mm), (int)task_cpu(p), p->oomkilladj,
p->comm);
p->pid, __task_cred(p)->uid, p->tgid,
p->mm->total_vm, get_mm_rss(p->mm), (int)task_cpu(p),
p->oomkilladj, p->comm);
task_unlock(p);
} while_each_thread(g, p);
}