Some of dentry_has_perm() is not rcu-safe, so if LOOKUP_RCU
is set in selinux_inode_follow_link(), give up with
-ECHILD.
It is possible that dentry_has_perm could sometimes complete
in RCU more, in which case the flag could be propagated further
down the stack...
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
---
security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index e3074e01f058..5d4de8cbfaa6 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2866,6 +2866,8 @@ static int selinux_inode_follow_link(struct dentry
*dentry, int flags)
{
const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
+ if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
+ return -ECHILD;
return dentry_has_perm(cred, dentry, FILE__READ);
}
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