Commit f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
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Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free
Paranoid fix. The task can free its ->mm after the 'if (p->mm)' check. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kernel/tsacct.c
... | ... | @@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ |
80 | 80 | */ |
81 | 81 | void xacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *p) |
82 | 82 | { |
83 | + struct mm_struct *mm; | |
84 | + | |
83 | 85 | /* convert pages-jiffies to Mbyte-usec */ |
84 | 86 | stats->coremem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_rss_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB; |
85 | 87 | stats->virtmem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_vm_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB; |
86 | - if (p->mm) { | |
88 | + mm = get_task_mm(p); | |
89 | + if (mm) { | |
87 | 90 | /* adjust to KB unit */ |
88 | - stats->hiwater_rss = p->mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB; | |
89 | - stats->hiwater_vm = p->mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB; | |
91 | + stats->hiwater_rss = mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB; | |
92 | + stats->hiwater_vm = mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB; | |
93 | + mmput(mm); | |
90 | 94 | } |
91 | 95 | stats->read_char = p->rchar; |
92 | 96 | stats->write_char = p->wchar; |