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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-08-04 15:59:14 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-04 18:17:10 (GMT)
commit694f690d27dadccc8cb9d90532e76593b61fe098 (patch)
treeea641e53ae530d0d3708fbfcab8109cc5e840d21 /arch/x86/kernel
parente75aa85892b2ee78c79edac720868cbef16e62eb (diff)
downloadlinux-694f690d27dadccc8cb9d90532e76593b61fe098.tar.xz
CRED: Fix RCU warning due to previous patch fixing __task_cred()'s checks
Commit 8f92054e7ca1 ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment") fixed the lockdep checks on __task_cred(). This has shown up a place in the signalling code where a lock should be held - namely that check_kill_permission() requires its callers to hold the RCU lock. Fix group_send_sig_info() to get the RCU read lock around its call to check_kill_permission(). Without this patch, the following warning can occur: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/signal.c:660 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! ... Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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