[PATCH 5/6] Yama: fix default relationship to check thread group
Paolo Pisati
paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Thu Nov 24 10:07:25 UTC 2011
From: Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com>
Yet another case of a thread needing to match against the group leader.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/737676
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
(cherry picked from commit 47208c22ade02f2b0b95dc3cb38e9a30c5ac600a)
BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/893190
Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati 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 1fb1f90..f3e7d7f 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ 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;
--
1.7.5.4
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