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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2009-09-23 15:56:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:21:01 -0700 |
| commit | 964ee7df90d799e38fb1556c57cd5c45fc736436 (patch) | |
| tree | 58ae7325f80394cb86409d5876c710376dde8e1a /include | |
| parent | 61be228a06dc6e8662f30e89eda3c12083c1f379 (diff) | |
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exec: fix set_binfmt() vs sys_delete_module() race
sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after
search_binary_handler() does try_module_get(). In this case
set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers
check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old
->binfmt.
The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can
rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module
and use __module_get() which never fails.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/binfmts.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h index 2046b5b8af48..aece486ac734 100644 --- a/include/linux/binfmts.h +++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ extern int copy_strings_kernel(int argc,char ** argv,struct linux_binprm *bprm); extern int prepare_bprm_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm); extern void install_exec_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm); extern void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs); -extern int set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new); +extern void set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new); extern void free_bprm(struct linux_binprm *); #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ |