[PATCH, natty and maverick] Yama: fix default relationship to check thread group
Kees Cook
kees at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 18 16:51:16 UTC 2011
Yet another case of a thread needing to match against the group leader.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook at canonical.com>
---
security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index b05f1dd..c8f3020 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ static int task_is_descendant(struct task_struct *parent,
rcu_read_lock();
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ if (!thread_group_leader(parent))
+ parent = parent->group_leader;
while (walker->pid > 0) {
if (!thread_group_leader(walker))
walker = walker->group_leader;
--
1.7.4.1
--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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