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[PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:46:43 +0000 (22:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:08:41 +0000 (12:08 -0800)
Paranoid fix. The task can free its ->mm after the 'if (p->mm)' check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/tsacct.c

index 65a5036a3d9519031526f499c5495ac23401a90e..96f77013d3f038ea03b688c448e2ef69a77aee06 100644 (file)
@@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk)
  */
 void xacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *p)
 {
+       struct mm_struct *mm;
+
        /* convert pages-jiffies to Mbyte-usec */
        stats->coremem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_rss_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
        stats->virtmem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_vm_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
-       if (p->mm) {
+       mm = get_task_mm(p);
+       if (mm) {
                /* adjust to KB unit */
-               stats->hiwater_rss   = p->mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
-               stats->hiwater_vm    = p->mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+               stats->hiwater_rss   = mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+               stats->hiwater_vm    = mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+               mmput(mm);
        }
        stats->read_char        = p->rchar;
        stats->write_char       = p->wchar;