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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>2009-12-17 07:07:19 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>2010-01-20 15:03:31 -0800
commit703625118069f9f8960d356676662d3db5a9d116 (patch)
treefe46ee6784dee41dbb9b642a1f551a1adfa44710
parent18c576f950167ff3ec1e56dcbbec7b87288b3237 (diff)
tty: fix race in tty_fasync
We need to keep the lock held over the call to __f_setown() to prevent a PID race. Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out the problem, and to Travis for making us look here in the first place. Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <[email protected]> Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]> Cc: Julien Tinnes <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]> Cc: stable <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index f15df40bc318..c6f3b48be9dd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1951,8 +1951,8 @@ static int tty_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on)
pid = task_pid(current);
type = PIDTYPE_PID;
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
retval = __f_setown(filp, pid, type, 0);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
if (retval)
goto out;
} else {