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authorMateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>2016-08-23 16:20:39 +0200
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2016-08-31 16:16:35 -0400
commit5efc244346f9f338765da3d592f7947b0afdc4b5 (patch)
tree6ebac44194021885b9f79e72193ee243391dc7ed /kernel/audit_watch.c
parentcd81a9170e69e018bbaba547c1fd85a585f5697a (diff)
audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare
Prior to the change the function would blindly deference mm, exe_file and exe_file->f_inode, each of which could have been NULL or freed. Use get_task_exe_file to safely obtain stable exe_file. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3.x Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/audit_watch.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit_watch.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index 3cf1c5978d39..4846691957da 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
+#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
@@ -544,10 +545,11 @@ int audit_exe_compare(struct task_struct *tsk, struct audit_fsnotify_mark *mark)
unsigned long ino;
dev_t dev;
- rcu_read_lock();
- exe_file = rcu_dereference(tsk->mm->exe_file);
+ exe_file = get_task_exe_file(tsk);
+ if (!exe_file)
+ return 0;
ino = exe_file->f_inode->i_ino;
dev = exe_file->f_inode->i_sb->s_dev;
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ fput(exe_file);
return audit_mark_compare(mark, ino, dev);
}