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authorHillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>2010-12-29 13:55:28 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-12-29 19:31:38 (GMT)
commit4ef9e11d6867f88951e30db910fa015300e31871 (patch)
tree5533f5cb2c7a054db9784b48e0b8484d5060f7d7 /kernel/user.c
parent387c31c7e5c9805b0aef8833d1731a5fe7bdea14 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-4ef9e11d6867f88951e30db910fa015300e31871.tar.xz
fix freeing user_struct in user cache
When racing on adding into user cache, the new allocated from mm slab is freed without putting user namespace. Since the user namespace is already operated by getting, putting has to be issued. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/user.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 2c7d8d5..5c598ca 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
up = uid_hash_find(uid, hashent);
if (up) {
+ put_user_ns(ns);
key_put(new->uid_keyring);
key_put(new->session_keyring);
kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);