From 2ae448efc87df6d328f5835969076c7f9fce59c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:36 -0700 Subject: pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp() sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe. We can add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Louis Rilling Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/pid.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/pid.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index 1b3586fe753a..6628abcc520e 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type) { struct pid *pid; rcu_read_lock(); + if (type != PIDTYPE_PID) + task = task->group_leader; pid = get_pid(task->pids[type].pid); rcu_read_unlock(); return pid; -- cgit v1.2.3