From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] CRED: Fix kernel panic upon security_file_alloc() failure.
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:13:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110204181324.15313.11611.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
In get_empty_filp() since 2.6.29, file_free(f) is called with f->f_cred == NULL
when security_file_alloc() returned an error. As a result, kernel will panic()
due to put_cred(NULL) call within RCU callback.
Fix this bug by assigning f->f_cred before calling security_file_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
fs/file_table.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index c3e89ad..eb36b6b 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
goto fail;
percpu_counter_inc(&nr_files);
+ f->f_cred = get_cred(cred);
if (security_file_alloc(f))
goto fail_sec;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&f->f_u.fu_list);
atomic_long_set(&f->f_count, 1);
rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
- f->f_cred = get_cred(cred);
spin_lock_init(&f->f_lock);
eventpoll_init_file(f);
/* f->f_version: 0 */
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