From 9b1bf12d5d51bca178dea21b04a0805e29d60cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:34:08 -0700 Subject: signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec itself and we can reuse ->cred_guard_mutex for it. Yes, concurrent execve() has no worth. Let's move ->cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct. It naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/proc') diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 9b094c1c8465..f3d02ca461ec 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task) { struct mm_struct *mm; - if (mutex_lock_killable(&task->cred_guard_mutex)) + if (mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex)) return NULL; mm = get_task_mm(task); @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task) mmput(mm); mm = NULL; } - mutex_unlock(&task->cred_guard_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); return mm; } @@ -2354,14 +2354,14 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf, goto out_free; /* Guard against adverse ptrace interaction */ - length = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_guard_mutex); + length = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); if (length < 0) goto out_free; length = security_setprocattr(task, (char*)file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name, (void*)page, count); - mutex_unlock(&task->cred_guard_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); out_free: free_page((unsigned long) page); out: -- cgit v1.2.3