cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation
Commit 8f92054e7ca1 ("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>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 910a071..3281493 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@
unsigned long state;
int retval, status, traced;
pid_t pid = task_pid_vnr(p);
- uid_t uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), __task_cred(p)->uid);
+ uid_t uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), task_uid(p));
struct siginfo __user *infop;
if (!likely(wo->wo_flags & WEXITED))