From: Serge E. Hallyn Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:04:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: User namespaces: Only put the userns when we unhash the uid X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb5ae64fdde29236e1a15e0366946df7060f41f2;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git User namespaces: Only put the userns when we unhash the uid uids in namespaces other than init don't get a sysfs entry. For those in the init namespace, while we're waiting to remove the sysfs entry for the uid the uid is still hashed, and alloc_uid() may re-grab that uid without getting a new reference to the user_ns, which we've already put in free_user before scheduling remove_user_sysfs_dir(). Reported-and-tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: David Howells Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 477b6660f44..3551ac74239 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ static void uid_hash_insert(struct user_struct *up, struct hlist_head *hashent) static void uid_hash_remove(struct user_struct *up) { hlist_del_init(&up->uidhash_node); + put_user_ns(up->user_ns); } static struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) @@ -334,7 +335,6 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags) atomic_inc(&up->__count); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); - put_user_ns(up->user_ns); INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir); schedule_work(&up->work); } @@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags) sched_destroy_user(up); key_put(up->uid_keyring); key_put(up->session_keyring); - put_user_ns(up->user_ns); kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, up); }