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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> | 2018-08-22 06:55:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 19:52:46 +0200 |
| commit | fc37191272a972d449bab3d8247cf52cadf5d4e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 17510f69e906aacff6c2a5c89f72ac4f17fb40f4 /kernel | |
| parent | bdi: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock() (diff) | |
| download | linux-fc37191272a972d449bab3d8247cf52cadf5d4e6.tar.xz linux-fc37191272a972d449bab3d8247cf52cadf5d4e6.zip | |
userns: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_t
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
wh en the variable is used as a reference counter. This avoids accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free situations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 36288d840675..5f65ef195259 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(uidhash_lock); /* root_user.__count is 1, for init task cred */ struct user_struct root_user = { - .__count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), + .__count = REFCOUNT_INIT(1), .processes = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .sigpending = ATOMIC_INIT(0), .locked_shm = 0, @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(kuid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) hlist_for_each_entry(user, hashent, uidhash_node) { if (uid_eq(user->uid, uid)) { - atomic_inc(&user->__count); + refcount_inc(&user->__count); return user; } } @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ void free_uid(struct user_struct *up) return; local_irq_save(flags); - if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) + if (refcount_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) free_user(up, flags); else local_irq_restore(flags); @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(kuid_t uid) goto out_unlock; new->uid = uid; - atomic_set(&new->__count, 1); + refcount_set(&new->__count, 1); ratelimit_state_init(&new->ratelimit, HZ, 100); ratelimit_set_flags(&new->ratelimit, RATELIMIT_MSG_ON_RELEASE); |