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[PATCH] audit/accounting: tty locking
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Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code.

The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for
someone else to sort out.  Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Alan-Cox authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 29, 2006
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion kernel/acct.c
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Expand Up @@ -483,10 +483,14 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file *file)
ac.ac_ppid = current->parent->tgid;
#endif

read_lock(&tasklist_lock); /* pin current->signal */
mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
/* FIXME: Whoever is responsible for current->signal locking needs
to use the same locking all over the kernel and document it */
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
ac.ac_tty = current->signal->tty ?
old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(current->signal->tty)) : 0;
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);

spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_utime)));
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions kernel/auditsc.c
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Expand Up @@ -817,6 +817,8 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct task_struct *ts
audit_log_format(ab, " success=%s exit=%ld",
(context->return_valid==AUDITSC_SUCCESS)?"yes":"no",
context->return_code);

mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
if (tsk->signal && tsk->signal->tty && tsk->signal->tty->name)
tty = tsk->signal->tty->name;
else
Expand All @@ -838,6 +840,9 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct task_struct *ts
context->gid,
context->euid, context->suid, context->fsuid,
context->egid, context->sgid, context->fsgid, tty);

mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);

audit_log_task_info(ab, tsk);
if (context->filterkey) {
audit_log_format(ab, " key=");
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