From 8cdb878dcb359fd1137e9abdee9322f5e9bcfdf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Yeoh Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:34:09 +1030 Subject: Fix race in process_vm_rw_core This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 2234985a5e65..7d379a6bfd88 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2259,6 +2259,12 @@ static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct * mm) extern void mmput(struct mm_struct *); /* Grab a reference to a task's mm, if it is not already going away */ extern struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task); +/* + * Grab a reference to a task's mm, if it is not already going away + * and ptrace_may_access with the mode parameter passed to it + * succeeds. + */ +extern struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode); /* Remove the current tasks stale references to the old mm_struct */ extern void mm_release(struct task_struct *, struct mm_struct *); /* Allocate a new mm structure and copy contents from tsk->mm */ -- cgit v1.2.3