From 2344bec788b097b2d1198758bd29c583812b864e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] proc: use mm_access() instead of ptrace_may_access() mm_access() handles this much better, and avoids some race conditions. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index cca635d252d4..155dee600ed4 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2022,11 +2022,8 @@ static int map_files_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) if (!task) goto out_notask; - if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) - goto out; - - mm = get_task_mm(task); - if (!mm) + mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mm)) goto out; if (!dname_to_vma_addr(dentry, &vm_start, &vm_end)) { -- 2.34.1