Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit

Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore:
 "Two small patches to fix some bugs with the audit-by-executable
  functionality we introduced back in v4.3 (both patches are marked
  for the stable folks)"

* 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare
  mm: introduce get_task_exe_file

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index aaf782327bf3..36c0daa03c60 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -799,6 +799,29 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mm_exe_file);
 
 /**
+ * get_task_exe_file - acquire a reference to the task's executable file
+ *
+ * Returns %NULL if task's mm (if any) has no associated executable file or
+ * this is a kernel thread with borrowed mm (see the comment above get_task_mm).
+ * User must release file via fput().
+ */
+struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+        struct file *exe_file = NULL;
+        struct mm_struct *mm;
+
+        task_lock(task);
+        mm = task->mm;
+        if (mm) {
+                if (!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+                        exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm);
+        }
+        task_unlock(task);
+        return exe_file;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_task_exe_file);
+
+/**
  * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm
  *
  * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm.  Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning