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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2025-02-19 17:14:17 +0100
committerKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>2025-03-07 19:58:05 -0800
commit71c769231ff73289c8f988453987af60f1d04da3 (patch)
tree3e49e63247ab50446f35cf48df04d40c2522382b
parenta3aac126ca3a71b6612a817ef24db325618fd902 (diff)
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yama: don't abuse rcu_read_lock/get_task_struct in yama_task_prctl()
current->group_leader is stable, no need to take rcu_read_lock() and do get/put_task_struct(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219161417.GA20851@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--security/yama/yama_lsm.c9
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index 1971710620c1..3d064dd4e03f 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int yama_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
{
int rc = -ENOSYS;
- struct task_struct *myself = current;
+ struct task_struct *myself;
switch (option) {
case PR_SET_PTRACER:
@@ -232,11 +232,7 @@ static int yama_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
* leader checking is handled later when walking the ancestry
* at the time of PTRACE_ATTACH check.
*/
- rcu_read_lock();
- if (!thread_group_leader(myself))
- myself = rcu_dereference(myself->group_leader);
- get_task_struct(myself);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ myself = current->group_leader;
if (arg2 == 0) {
yama_ptracer_del(NULL, myself);
@@ -255,7 +251,6 @@ static int yama_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
}
}
- put_task_struct(myself);
break;
}