linux/security
Tetsuo Handa 6d6f332842 commoncap: don't alloc the credential unless needed in cap_task_prctl
In function cap_task_prctl(), we would allocate a credential
unconditionally and then check if we support the requested function.
If not we would release this credential with abort_creds() by using
RCU method. But on some archs such as powerpc, the sys_prctl is heavily
used to get/set the floating point exception mode. So the unnecessary
allocating/releasing of credential not only introduce runtime overhead
but also do cause OOM due to the RCU implementation.

This patch removes abort_creds() from cap_task_prctl() by calling
prepare_creds() only when we need to modify it.

Reported-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
2014-07-24 21:12:30 +10:00
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apparmor sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags 2014-07-18 12:13:38 -07:00
integrity ima: provide double buffering for hash calculation 2014-07-17 09:35:11 -04:00
keys Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security 2014-06-10 10:05:36 -07:00
selinux Merge branch 'next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into next 2014-07-19 17:39:19 +10:00
smack Merge branch 'smack-for-3.16' of git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel into next 2014-05-20 14:50:09 +10:00
tomoyo get rid of pointless checks for NULL ->i_op 2014-04-01 23:19:16 -04:00
yama yama: Better permission check for ptraceme 2013-03-26 13:17:58 -07:00
Kconfig security: select correct default LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR on arm on arm64 2014-02-05 14:59:14 +00:00
Makefile security: cleanup Makefiles to use standard syntax for specifying sub-directories 2014-02-17 11:08:04 +11:00
capability.c Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next 2014-04-14 11:42:49 +10:00
commoncap.c commoncap: don't alloc the credential unless needed in cap_task_prctl 2014-07-24 21:12:30 +10:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() 2014-05-16 13:22:52 -04:00
inode.c securityfs: fix object creation races 2012-01-10 10:20:35 -05:00
lsm_audit.c audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace 2014-03-20 10:11:55 -04:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security 2014-06-10 10:05:36 -07:00