From abacd2fe3ca10b3ade57f3634053241a660002c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:55:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] coredump: set_dumpable: fix the theoretical race with itself set_dumpable() updates MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK in a non-trivial way to ensure that get_dumpable() can't observe the intermediate state, but this all can't help if multiple threads call set_dumpable() at the same time. And in theory commit_creds()->set_dumpable(SUID_DUMP_ROOT) racing with sys_prctl()->set_dumpable(SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) can result in SUID_DUMP_USER. Change this code to update both bits atomically via cmpxchg(). Note: this assumes that it is safe to mix bitops and cmpxchg. IOW, if, say, an architecture implements cmpxchg() using the locking (like arch/parisc/lib/bitops.c does), then it should use the same locks for set_bit/etc. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Alex Kelly Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Petr Matousek Cc: Vasily Kulikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed