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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-05-08 08:55:22 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-05-10 18:15:36 -0400
commit5e751e992f3fb08ba35e1ca8095ec8fbf9eda523 (patch)
tree711b1b47622dc9661f1d3d9c67d55c0b21456e8c /include/linux
parentd254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011 (diff)
CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against ptrace
Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace(). The attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init_task.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index d87247d2641f..7f54ba942429 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
145 .group_leader = &tsk, \ 145 .group_leader = &tsk, \
146 .real_cred = &init_cred, \ 146 .real_cred = &init_cred, \
147 .cred = &init_cred, \ 147 .cred = &init_cred, \
148 .cred_exec_mutex = \ 148 .cred_guard_mutex = \
149 __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(tsk.cred_exec_mutex), \ 149 __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(tsk.cred_guard_mutex), \
150 .comm = "swapper", \ 150 .comm = "swapper", \
151 .thread = INIT_THREAD, \ 151 .thread = INIT_THREAD, \
152 .fs = &init_fs, \ 152 .fs = &init_fs, \
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3fa82b353c98..5932ace22400 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1247,7 +1247,9 @@ struct task_struct {
1247 * credentials (COW) */ 1247 * credentials (COW) */
1248 const struct cred *cred; /* effective (overridable) subjective task 1248 const struct cred *cred; /* effective (overridable) subjective task
1249 * credentials (COW) */ 1249 * credentials (COW) */
1250 struct mutex cred_exec_mutex; /* execve vs ptrace cred calculation mutex */ 1250 struct mutex cred_guard_mutex; /* guard against foreign influences on
1251 * credential calculations
1252 * (notably. ptrace) */
1251 1253
1252 char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path 1254 char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path
1253 - access with [gs]et_task_comm (which lock 1255 - access with [gs]et_task_comm (which lock