userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failure
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:38:55 +0000 (19:38 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:35:25 +0000 (18:35 -0700)
commitc98ebcb618645d40cfec14b0534ff32126c114ce
treeff10fbc7e13727792d1b16107616368e0c5ad194
parent73b8bd6de83c0ca182622f83d31a1b0a137281fe
userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failure

commit 6160968cee8b90a5dd95318d716e31d7775c4ef3 upstream.

unshare_userns(new_cred) does *new_cred = prepare_creds() before
create_user_ns() which can fail. However, the caller expects that
it doesn't need to take care of new_cred if unshare_userns() fails.

We could change the single caller, sys_unshare(), but I think it
would be more clean to avoid the side effects on failure, so with
this patch unshare_userns() does put_cred() itself and initializes
*new_cred only if create_user_ns() succeeeds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/user_namespace.c