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Oleg Nesterov authored
Commit 8f92054e ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment"): add the following validation condition: task->exit_state >= 0 to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change its own credentials. OK, but afaics currently this can only help wait_task_zombie() which calls __task_cred() without rcu lock. Remove this validation and change wait_task_zombie() to use task_uid() instead. This means we do rcu_read_lock() only to shut up the lockdep, but we already do the same in, say, wait_task_stopped(). task_is_dead() should die, task->exit_state != 0 means that this task has passed exit_notify(), only do_wait-like code paths should use this. Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already acquired buggy users in drivers/staging. The fix already exists. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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