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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-11-16 21:52:53 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-04-07 16:55:52 -0700
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cred: Refcount the user_ns pointed to by the cred.
struct user_struct will shortly loose it's user_ns reference so make the cred user_ns reference a proper reference complete with reference counting. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cred.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cred.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 97b36ee..7a0d806 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static void put_cred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
if (cred->group_info)
put_group_info(cred->group_info);
free_uid(cred->user);
+ put_user_ns(cred->user_ns);
kmem_cache_free(cred_jar, cred);
}
@@ -303,6 +304,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)
set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
get_group_info(new->group_info);
get_uid(new->user);
+ get_user_ns(new->user_ns);
#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
key_get(new->thread_keyring);
@@ -412,11 +414,6 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
goto error_put;
}
- /* cache user_ns in cred. Doesn't need a refcount because it will
- * stay pinned by cred->user
- */
- new->user_ns = new->user->user_ns;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
/* new threads get their own thread keyrings if their parent already
* had one */
@@ -676,6 +673,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
get_uid(new->user);
+ get_user_ns(new->user_ns);
get_group_info(new->group_info);
#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS