On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> From: Mateusz Guzik <m...@freebsd.org>
> 
> Prior to this change the kernel would take p1's credentials and assign
> them tempororarily to p2. But p1 could change credentials at that time
> and in effect give us a use-after-free.
In which way could it change the credentials ?  The assigned credentials
are taken from td_ucred, which, I thought, are guaranteed to be stable
for the duration of a syscall.

Other two patches look fine.
> ---
>  sys/kern/kern_fork.c | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
> index ae86fe1..15833fd 100644
> --- a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
> +++ b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
> @@ -410,9 +410,6 @@ do_fork(struct thread *td, int flags, struct proc *p2, 
> struct thread *td2,
>       bzero(&p2->p_startzero,
>           __rangeof(struct proc, p_startzero, p_endzero));
>  
> -     crhold(td->td_ucred);
> -     proc_set_cred(p2, td->td_ucred);
> -
>       /* Tell the prison that we exist. */
>       prison_proc_hold(p2->p_ucred->cr_prison);
>  
> @@ -832,7 +829,7 @@ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct 
> proc **procp,
>               td2 = thread_alloc(pages);
>               if (td2 == NULL) {
>                       error = ENOMEM;
> -                     goto fail1;
> +                     goto fail2;
>               }
>               proc_linkup(newproc, td2);
>       } else {
> @@ -841,7 +838,7 @@ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct 
> proc **procp,
>                               vm_thread_dispose(td2);
>                       if (!thread_alloc_stack(td2, pages)) {
>                               error = ENOMEM;
> -                             goto fail1;
> +                             goto fail2;
>                       }
>               }
>       }
> @@ -850,7 +847,7 @@ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct 
> proc **procp,
>               vm2 = vmspace_fork(p1->p_vmspace, &mem_charged);
>               if (vm2 == NULL) {
>                       error = ENOMEM;
> -                     goto fail1;
> +                     goto fail2;
>               }
>               if (!swap_reserve(mem_charged)) {
>                       /*
> @@ -861,7 +858,7 @@ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct 
> proc **procp,
>                        */
>                       swap_reserve_force(mem_charged);
>                       error = ENOMEM;
> -                     goto fail1;
> +                     goto fail2;
>               }
>       } else
>               vm2 = NULL;
> @@ -870,7 +867,7 @@ fork1(struct thread *td, int flags, int pages, struct 
> proc **procp,
>        * XXX: This is ugly; when we copy resource usage, we need to bump
>        *      per-cred resource counters.
>        */
> -     proc_set_cred(newproc, p1->p_ucred);
> +     proc_set_cred(newproc, crhold(td->td_ucred));
>  
>       /*
>        * Initialize resource accounting for the child process.
> @@ -946,6 +943,8 @@ fail:
>  #endif
>       racct_proc_exit(newproc);
>  fail1:
> +     crfree(proc_set_cred(newproc, NULL));
> +fail2:
>       if (vm2 != NULL)
>               vmspace_free(vm2);
>       uma_zfree(proc_zone, newproc);
> -- 
> 2.3.2
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