[PATCH] audit/accounting: tty locking
authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:01:41 +0000 (02:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:18:25 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code.

The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for
someone else to sort out.  Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/acct.c
kernel/auditsc.c

index 2a7c933651c7c03b0777fcecdc1ea3e06fed259b..f4330acead468a8cd228d0249918dbd748e7fbf2 100644 (file)
@@ -483,10 +483,14 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
        ac.ac_ppid = current->parent->tgid;
 #endif
 
-       read_lock(&tasklist_lock);      /* pin current->signal */
+       mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
+       /* FIXME: Whoever is responsible for current->signal locking needs
+          to use the same locking all over the kernel and document it */
+       read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
        ac.ac_tty = current->signal->tty ?
                old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(current->signal->tty)) : 0;
        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+       mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 
        spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
        ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_utime)));
index fb83c5cb8c324226c47fb18ca7c708e61ef4421b..105147631753f1b4f68fc17878a0e4531b436593 100644 (file)
@@ -817,6 +817,8 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct task_struct *ts
                audit_log_format(ab, " success=%s exit=%ld", 
                                 (context->return_valid==AUDITSC_SUCCESS)?"yes":"no",
                                 context->return_code);
+
+       mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
        if (tsk->signal && tsk->signal->tty && tsk->signal->tty->name)
                tty = tsk->signal->tty->name;
        else
@@ -838,6 +840,9 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct task_struct *ts
                  context->gid,
                  context->euid, context->suid, context->fsuid,
                  context->egid, context->sgid, context->fsgid, tty);
+
+       mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+
        audit_log_task_info(ab, tsk);
        if (context->filterkey) {
                audit_log_format(ab, " key=");