Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 6/8] core: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks | Date | Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:08:42 +0200 |
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Add locking to allow setrlimit accept task parameter other than current.
Namely, lock tasklist_lock for read and check whether the task structure has sighand non-null. Do all the signal processing under that lock still held. We do this only for non-current tasks.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> --- kernel/sys.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 655dd7b..791b5c5 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1247,9 +1247,16 @@ int setrlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource, if (resource == RLIMIT_NOFILE && new_rlim->rlim_max > sysctl_nr_open) return -EPERM; + /* protect tsk->signal and tsk->sighand from disappearing */ + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + if (!tsk->sighand) { + retval = -ESRCH; + goto out; + } + retval = security_task_setrlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim); if (retval) - return retval; + goto out; if (resource == RLIMIT_CPU && new_rlim->rlim_cur == 0) { /* @@ -1284,6 +1291,7 @@ int setrlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource, update_rlimit_cpu(tsk, new_rlim->rlim_cur); out: + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return retval; } -- 1.6.3.3
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