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[PATCH] close race in unshare_files()
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updating current->files requires task_lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro committed Apr 25, 2008
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20 changes: 9 additions & 11 deletions kernel/fork.c
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Expand Up @@ -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;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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);

Expand All @@ -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);
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