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Subject[PATCH] CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm
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Fix commit_creds()'s handling of a process that has no mm (such as one that is
calling or has called daemonize()). commit_creds() should check to see if
task->mm is not NULL before calling set_dumpable() on it.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

kernel/cred.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index ff7bc07..480a61a 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new)
old->fsuid != new->fsuid ||
old->fsgid != new->fsgid ||
!cap_issubset(new->cap_permitted, old->cap_permitted)) {
- set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
+ if (task->mm)
+ set_dumpable(task->mm, suid_dumpable);
task->pdeath_signal = 0;
smp_wmb();
}


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