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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2009-05-08 08:55:22 -0400 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-10 18:15:36 -0400 |
commit | 5e751e992f3fb08ba35e1ca8095ec8fbf9eda523 (patch) | |
tree | 711b1b47622dc9661f1d3d9c67d55c0b21456e8c /kernel/cred.c | |
parent | d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011 (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 'kernel/cred.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/cred.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 3a039189d707..1bb4d7e5d616 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c | |||
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_creds); | |||
167 | 167 | ||
168 | /* | 168 | /* |
169 | * Prepare credentials for current to perform an execve() | 169 | * Prepare credentials for current to perform an execve() |
170 | * - The caller must hold current->cred_exec_mutex | 170 | * - The caller must hold current->cred_guard_mutex |
171 | */ | 171 | */ |
172 | struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void) | 172 | struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void) |
173 | { | 173 | { |
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags) | |||
276 | struct cred *new; | 276 | struct cred *new; |
277 | int ret; | 277 | int ret; |
278 | 278 | ||
279 | mutex_init(&p->cred_exec_mutex); | 279 | mutex_init(&p->cred_guard_mutex); |
280 | 280 | ||
281 | if ( | 281 | if ( |
282 | #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS | 282 | #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS |