selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:45:01 +0000 (17:45 -0500)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:20:15 +0000 (19:20 +0000)
commit5826e620694c056e27dae2f1e1e31005c93ab7e0
tree732dc4456289f783edc49d4c7bd2ea33bc991fe9
parent3831c7b4d90558d946d67c83cc04c6eca2a9ef99
selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock()

commit c0c1439541f5305b57a83d599af32b74182933fe upstream.

selinux_setprocattr() does ptrace_parent(p) under task_lock(p),
but task_struct->alloc_lock doesn't pin ->parent or ->ptrace,
this looks confusing and triggers the "suspicious RCU usage"
warning because ptrace_parent() does rcu_dereference_check().

And in theory this is wrong, spin_lock()->preempt_disable()
doesn't necessarily imply rcu_read_lock() we need to access
the ->parent.

Reported-by: Evan McNabb <emcnabb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
security/selinux/hooks.c