aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstatshomepage
path: root/kernel/fork.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-02-27 13:40:41 +0000
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-02-27 13:40:49 +0000
commit96a3eab338c01e172745b1686c51c1be96ce9ead (patch)
tree5a53947a192549d9edf63550258e1bddf6f1d794 /kernel/fork.c
parentMerge branch 'at91-3.4-base+pm_cleanup' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-at91 into next/cleanup (diff)
parentARM: Remove redundant ';' from avic_irq_set_priority() (diff)
downloadwireguard-linux-96a3eab338c01e172745b1686c51c1be96ce9ead.tar.xz
wireguard-linux-96a3eab338c01e172745b1686c51c1be96ce9ead.zip
Merge branch 'imx-cleanup' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into next/cleanup
* 'imx-cleanup' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6: (247 commits) ARM: Remove redundant ';' from avic_irq_set_priority() ARM: mx3: Let mx31 and mx35 share the same CCM header file ARM: plat-mxc: audmux-v1: Remove unneeded ifdef's Update to v3.3-rc3 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 051f090d40c1..1b2ef3c23ae4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -647,6 +647,26 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm);
+struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ int err;
+
+ err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+ if (err)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ if (mm && mm != current->mm &&
+ !ptrace_may_access(task, mode)) {
+ mmput(mm);
+ mm = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+
+ return mm;
+}
+
/* Please note the differences between mmput and mm_release.
* mmput is called whenever we stop holding onto a mm_struct,
* error success whatever.