On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbur...@parallels.com> > > commit 303a7ce92064c285a04c870f2dc0192fdb2968cb upstream. > > Taking hostname from uts namespace if not safe, because this cuold be > performind during umount operation on child reaper death. And in this case > current->nsproxy is NULL already. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbur...@parallels.com> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@netapp.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > fs/lockd/mon.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- a/fs/lockd/mon.c > +++ b/fs/lockd/mon.c > @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct nsm_args { > u32 proc; > > char *mon_name; > + char *nodename; > }; > > struct nsm_res { > @@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ static int nsm_mon_unmon(struct nsm_hand > .vers = 3, > .proc = NLMPROC_NSM_NOTIFY, > .mon_name = nsm->sm_mon_name, > + .nodename = utsname()->nodename,
Can we be sure that this string pointer will remain valid at the point where current->nsproxy has become NULL? Or should nsm_args::nodename actually be a copy of the string? Ben. > }; > struct rpc_message msg = { > .rpc_argp = &args, > @@ -477,7 +479,7 @@ static void encode_my_id(struct xdr_stre > { > __be32 *p; > > - encode_nsm_string(xdr, utsname()->nodename); > + encode_nsm_string(xdr, argp->nodename); > p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4 + 4 + 4); > *p++ = cpu_to_be32(argp->prog); > *p++ = cpu_to_be32(argp->vers); -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/